JOHNSON, Samuel.

The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on their Works. With an Introduction and Notes by Roger Lonsdale.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006. Four volumes. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt to the spines, original printed slipcase. Frontispiece portrait to volume I. Just a little light rubbing to the case, very good. The first scholarly edition for just over a century of Johnson's great survey of seventeenth and eighteenth century poets. Item #45602

Price: £500.00