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Microform

Author

Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758.

Title The lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland, to the time of Dean Swift [microform] / 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.

Imprint

London : Printed for R. Griffiths, 1753.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe Basement Library of English Literature Microfiche Cabinets	LEL 22046-48	---	Available

Description	5 v.
Series	Library of English literature ; LEL 22046-48
Note	Vol. 4, p. 26, 189 and 251 misnumbered "62," "891," and "151" respectively.
	Title vignettes; decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.
	On t.-p. of v. 1: ... In four volumes.
	Title varies slightly; v. 2-5 "by Mr. Cibber and other hands."
	"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	Microfiche. Chicago, Ill. : Library Resources, inc., 1976. 3 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm. (Library of English literature ; LEL 22046-48)
Note	s 1976 ilu n
Subject	Poets, English.
	Poets, Irish.
Added Author	Shiels, Robert, -1753.
	Coxeter, Thomas, 1689-1747.