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The works of the English poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical

Samuel Johnson (Editor), John Nichols (Printer)
Print Book, English, 1790
Printed by John Nichols ; for J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Son, L. Davis, B. White and Son, T. Longman, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, C. Dilly, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, J. Johnson, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, R. Baldwin, H.L. Gardner, P. Elmsly, T. Evans, C. Nicol, Leigh and Sotheby, J. Bew, N. Conant, J. Murray, J. Sewell, W. Goldsmith, W. Richardson, T. Vernor, W. Lowndes, W. Bent, W. Otridge, T. and J. Egerton, S. Hayes, R. Faulder, J. Edwards, G. and T. Wilkie, W. Nicol, Ogilvy, and Speare, Scatcherd and Whitaker, W. Fox, C. Stalker, E. Newbery, London, 1790
Biographies
75 volumes : portraits, plates ; 17 cm
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Volume 1. Lives, Cowley to Otway
Volume 2. Lives, Waller to Dryden
Volume 3. Lives, Smith to Fenton
Volume 4. Lives, Gray to Broome
Volume 5. Lives, Pope to Shenstone
Volume 6. Lives, Young to Jenyns
Volumes 7-8. Cowley
Volume 9. Cowley (continued) ; Denham
Volume 10. Milton's Paradise lost
Volume 11. Milton's Paradise lost (continued) ; Paradise regained
Volume 12. Milton's smaller poems
Volumes 13-14. Butler
Volume 15. Rochester ; Roscommon ; Otway
Volume 16. Waller
Volume 17. Pomfret ; Dorset ; Stepney ; J. Phillips ; Walsh
Volumes 18-21. Dryden's miscellaneous poems
Volumes 22-24. Dryden's Virgil
Volume 25. Smith ; Duke ; King
Volume 26. King (continued) ; Sprat ; Halifax
Volume 27. Parnell
Volume 28. Garth ; Rowe
Volume 29. Rowe (continued)
Volume 30. Addison
Volume 31. Hughes
Volume 32. Sheffield ; Prior
Volume 33. Prior (continued)
Volume 34. Prior (continued) ; Congreve
Volume 35. Blackmore ; Fenton
Volumes 36-37. Gay
Volume 38. Lansdowne
Volume 39. Yalden ; Ticknell ; Hammond
Volume 40. Somervile
Volume 41. Somervile (continued) ; Savage
Volumes 42-43. Swift
Volume 44. Swift (continued) ; Broome
Volumes 45-47. Pope
Volumes 48-51. Pope's Homer
Volume 52. Pitt
Volume 53. Pitt's Virgil (continued)
Volume 54. Thomson
Volume 55. Thomson (continued) ; Watts
Volume 56. Watts (continued)
Volume 57. Ambrose Philips ; West
Volume 58. Collins ; Dyer
Volume 59. Shenstone
Volumes 60-62. Young
Volume 63. Mallet ; Akenside
Volume 64. Akenside (continued) ; Gray ; Lyttelton
Volume 65. Moore ; Cawthorn
Volume 66. Churchill
Volume 67. Churchill (continued) ; Falconer
Volume 68. Lloyd
Volume 69. Cunningham ; Matthew Green
Volume 70. Goldsmith ; Paul Whitehead
Volume 71. Armstrong ; Langhorne
Volume 72. S. Johnson ; Whitehead
Volume 73. Whitehead (continued) ; Jenyns
Volumes 74-75. Index
Volumes 1-6 contain lives of the poets ; volumes 74-75, General index
Printer varies: volumes 1-6, 74-75: John Nichols ; volumes 7-12: H. Hughs ; volumes 13-18, 69-70: Rivington & Marshall ; volumes 19-24, 68, 71: H. Baldwin ; volumes 25-30, 47: A. Strahan ; volumes 31-36: J. Davis ; volumes 37-41: H. Goldney ; volumes 42-46: T. Spilsbury & Son ; volumes 48-51, 63-64: R. Blyth ; volumes 52-56, 72: M. Brown ; volumes 57-62: A. Hamilton ; volumes 65-67, 73: T. Wright
Each volume has special title page