Beschreibung
, unusual pagination, each poet begins with page 1, approximately 230 - 287 pages, these books (Volumes 1 - 4, 1779, and Volumes 5 - 10, 1781) are the original titles, later publishers reprinted them as The Lives of the English Poets, black and white frontispiece of Samuel Johnson in the first volume, Volume I. Cowley and Waller, Volume II. Milton and Butler, Volume III. Dryden, Volume IV. Denham, Sprat, Roscommon, Rochester, Yalden, Otway, Duke, Dorset, Halifax, Stepney, Walsh, Garth, King, J Philips, Smith, Pomfret and Hughes, Volume V. Addison, Blackmore and Sheffield, Volume VI. Granville, Rowe, Trickell, Congreve, Fenton and Prior, Volume VII. Pope, Volume VIII. Swift, Gay, Broome, Pitt, Parnell, A Philips, and Watts, Volume IX. Savage, Somerville, Thomson, Hammond and Collins and Volume X. Young, Dyer, Mallet, Shenstone, Akenside, Lyttelton, West and Gray First Edition , volumes in similar condition, lightly rubbed at spines and with some small chips at head and tails, few small areas of title labels missing, gilt remains mostly bright, boards clean, joints partially cracked but holding firm, all internally clean, in very good condition , full tree calf, gilt titles on red leather spine labels, gilt decorated spines, 16 x 10 cm Hardback ISBN: Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 51160
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Titel: Prefaces, Biographical And Critical, To The ...
Verlag: Published by C. Bathurst. J Buckland, W Strahan, J Rivington and Sons, T Davies, T Payne, L Davies, W Owen, B White, S Crowder, T Caslon, T Longman, B Law, E and C Dilly, J Dodsley, H Baldwin, J Wilkie, J Robson, J Johnson, T Cadell, W Davis, and others 17791781, London
Erscheinungsdatum: 1779
Einband: Hardcover