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JOHNSON, SAMUEL. The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets . . . New Edition, Corrected. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Johnson in Volume 1; extra-illustrated with 32 engraved portraits of English poets with the imprint of John Bell dated 1782. 4 volumes. 8vo, 20th-century 1/2 red morocco gilt, slightly scuffed; varying browning on plates. London: C. Bathurst et al., 1783
"The only edition of importance after the first. It is the only edition which Johnson revised, and the last he lived to see"--Courtney & Nicol Smith, page 142.
