The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the time of Dean Swift / compiled from ample materials scattered in a variety of books, and especially from the ms. notes of the late ingenious Mr. Coxeter and others, collected for this design, by Mr. Cibber.

Author/creator Cibber, Theophilus
Other author Shiells, Robert, -1753.
Other author Coxeter, Thomas, 1689-1747.
Format Microform
Publication InfoLondon : Printed for R. Griffiths, 1753.
Description5 volumes.
Subjects

SeriesLibrary of English literature ; LEL 22046-48
Library of English literature ; LEL 22046-48. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteVol. 4, p. 26, 189 and 251 misnumbered "62," "891," and "151" respectively.
General noteTitle vignettes; decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.
General noteOn t.-p. of v. 1: ... In four volumes.
General noteTitle varies slightly; v. 2-5 "by Mr. Cibber and other hands."
General note"Dr. Johnson told Boswell that Cibber ... accepted ten guineas from the booksellers for allowing them to prefix his name to the lives, ad that he had no hand in the authorship of the book, which was mainly written by Robert Shiels (Johnson's amanuensis); but the truth is that Cibber revised and improved the whole work and wrote some of the lives himself, receiving from the booksellers an honorarium of twenty guineas."--Dictionary of national biography.
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 3 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 22046-48)

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