The lives of the English poets with critical observations on their works. And lives of sundry eminent persons
1840 · London
by Johnson, Samuel
London: Charles Tilt, 1840. Tilt's Cabinet Library Edition, small 8vo, pp. [6], 502, [2]; illustrations throughout, text in double column; original blue blind-tooled cloth, gilt spine, yellow glazed endpapers; spine a bit darkened, ends rubbed and worn; contemporary and later (1900) ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper, 19th-century bookseller pressure stamp and ticket on front free endpaper and rear pastedown; rear hinge cracked; textblock about fine. (Inventory #: 45764)
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