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040 $aDLC$cSNN$dOCL$dOCLCQ$dBRL
049 $aBRLL
090 $aPR501$b.C5
099 $aAdams 235.1
100 1 $aCibber, Theophilus,$d1703-1758.
245 14 $aThe lives of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland :$bto the time of Dean Swift /$ccompiled 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.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for R. Griffiths, at the Dunciad ...,$cMDCCLIII [1753]
300 $a5 v. ;$c17 cm.
500 $aOn t.p. of v. 1: ... In four volumes. In spite of wording on t.p., this was issued in five volumes.
500 $aTitle varies slightly: v. 2-5, "by Mr. Cibber and other hands."
500 $aHead-pieces; tail-pieces; initials.
500 $aVol. 4, p. 189 and 251 misnumbered "891," and "151" respectively.
500 $aEdition statement appears only under caption title on p. 1 of v. 1.
500 $aCompiled mainly by Robert Shiels with revisions and additions by Theophilus Cibber. --cf. Dict. nat. biog., also Faculty of Advocates Library catalogue.
500 $a"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." --cf. Dictionary of national biography.
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy has bookplate: John Adams Library, in the Custody of the Boston Public Library.$5BRL
500 $aJohn Adams Library copy inscribed on first leaf, v. 1: "5 Vol. £ 11:5:00."$5BRL
500 $aResearch Library c. 1, has bookplate: Given by Bates Fund.$5BRL
500 $aResearch Library c. 2, has bookplate: Given by the estate of James B. Noyes.$5BRL
500 $aResearch Library c. 1, inscribed on first leaf, v. 1: "See 'Theatres...'"$5BRL
504 $aBibliographical footnotes.
510 4 $aESTC,$cT82891
510 4 $aTeerink-Scouten,$c1341
533 $aAlso available on microfilm.$bWoodbridge, CT :$cResearch Publications, inc.,$d1986.$e1 reel ; 35mm.$f(The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1846, no. 07).
533 $aAlso available on microfiche.$bChicago, IL :$cLibrary Resources, inc.,$d1976.$e3 microfiches : positive ; 8 x 13 cm.$f(Library of English Literature ; LEL 22046-48).
533 $aAlso available on microfilm.$bAnn Arbor, MI :$cUniversity Microfilms International,$d19--.
533 $aAlso available on microfilm.$bWashington, DC :$cLibrary of Congress Photoduplication Service,$d19--.
533 $aAlso available on microfilm.$bKeswick, VA :$cMicrographics II,$d1980.$e1 reel. 35 mm.$f(Eighteenth-Century Sources for the Study of English Literature and Culture, roll 298).
590 $aJohn Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.
650 0 $aPoets, English.
650 0 $aPoets, Irish.
655 7 $aPublishers' advertisements.$2rbgenr
700 1 $aShiells, Robert,$dd. 1753.
700 1 $aCoxeter, Thomas,$d1689-1747.
700 1 $aAdams, John,$d1735-1826,$eformer owner.$5BRL
710 2 $aJohn Adams Library (Boston Public Library)$5BRL
937 $aEuropean history$aLiterature.
955 $aR-B
994 $a02$bBRL