Author: JOHNSON, Samuel.
Title: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical. Volume the Fifth.
Description: London, Printed by John Nichols; For J. Buckland, J. Rivington & Sons, T. Payne & Sons etc., 1790. 1st edition. Hardcover. Professionally rebound quarter-bound leather, with gilt to spine & red leather to title & author on spine. Examines the lives of Alexander Pope, Christopher Pitt, James Thomson, Isaac Watts, Ambrose Philips, Gilbert West, William Collins, John Dyer, & William Shenstone. The volume focuses mainly on Pope. B/W engravings. Overall in good condition. A handsome volume on the shelf. 323pp.

Keywords: poetry poets english 18th eighteenth century 17th seventeenth history literature literary historical