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SAMUEL JOHNSON 'The Lives of the English Poets; And a Criticism on Their Works,' first 'pirated' edition, three volumes, full leather binding, fine textblock, lacking frontis, Messers Whitestone, Williams et al, Dublin, 1779; 'The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets; With Critical Observations on Their Works,' first authorised separate edition, vols II, III, IV with wrong spine lables, recovered boards with marbled paper, sporadic toning and spotting to an otherwise clean textblock, Bathurst et al, London, 1781. (6)
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