[Rarebooks] FS: Samuel Johnson's LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS, 1781, in 4 volumes, price reduced

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Price reduced to $350 NET

JOHNSON, Samuel. THE LIVES OF THE MOST EMINENT ENGLISH POETS; WITH 
CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THEIR WORKS. London: Bathurst et al., 1781. 
First Edition. First London Edition, First Authorized Edition, and First 
Separate Edition in four octavo volumes in contemporary full sheep 
leather. Lacks ad leaf and leaf with paper labels, as is customary. 
State of the portrait without publisher's imprint. Johnson begins with 
Abraham Crowley and goes on to discuss John Milton, John Dryden, Joseph 
Addison, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Thomas Gray, and 
others. This work is often regarded as the finest and most famous 
collection of biographies of English poets ever written. Signature of 
Tho. E. Bull on the front endpaper. All but one of the leather labels 
lacking. Joints split but tight except on the last volume where the 
front cover is cleanly detached. Scattered foxing, some pencil notes. 
Quite Good set. (#003346)        $500.00

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