Author: POPE (Alexander): Title: Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. Particularly, I. Windsor-Forest, with the Messiah. II. Essay on Criticism. III. Rape of the Lock. IV . Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. V. Verses to the Memory of a Lady. VI. To Mr. Jervas, with Fresno's Art of Painting. VII. To a young Lady, with the Works of Voiture. VIII. Eloisa to Abelard [Volume I.]. Dr. King, late of the Commons. Mr. Smith, late of Christ Church. Revd Mr. Dibben. Mr. Eiisha Fenton. Revd Dr. Yalden. Mr. Rowe. Mr. Southcot. Revd. Mr. Broome. Revd. Mr. James Ward. And the Rev. Mr. Archdeacon Daniel [Volume II]. The Fourth Edition.
Description: London: Printed for Bernard Lintot..., 1722. 2 volumes. 12mo, 164 x 93 mms., pp. 288, 279 [280 - 286 indexes], title-pages in red and black, engraved portrait of Pope as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary calf, red leather labels, engraved armorial bookplate on the front paste-down end-paper of each volume without name; joints a little tender, spines dried. It was in the first publication of this anthology in 1712 that Pope sent out the two-canto version of The Rape of the Lock, before it was separately published in 1712 and again in 1714 in five cantos. The version printed her is in five cantos Griffith 135. Case, 260 (1d). Maslen & Lancaster. Bowyer ledgers, 845.
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