POPE, Alexander. The Works , London: by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot [volume II: by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver], 1717-35. 2 volumes, 2°, half titles, folding engraved portrait frontispiece of Pope by G. Vertue, woodcut vignette on title, title of second volume printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces and initials (laminated repair to verso of frontispiece, some spotting or browning), panelled calf gilt by Riviere, g.e. FIRST FOLIO EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Griffith 79; Rothschild 1585 (vol. I only). Alexander POPE The Dunciad variorum. With the prolegomena of Scriberius , London: printed for A. Dod., 1729. 4°, engraved vignette on title, with addenda leaf (partially erased stamp on title, a few leaves lightly waterstained at inner margin), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked and recornered). FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE FIRST THREE BOOKS and first publication of Virgilius Restauratus (pp. 99-103). Griffith 211; Rothschild 1597. With 2 of Pope's imitations of Horace, The first Epistle of the first Book of Horace imitated and The sixth Epistle of the first Book of Horace imitated (both London, 1737) bound in one volume. (4)
POPE, Alexander. The Works , London: by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot [volume II: by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver], 1717-35. 2 volumes, 2°, half titles, folding engraved portrait frontispiece of Pope by G. Vertue, woodcut vignette on title, title of second volume printed in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved headpieces and initials (laminated repair to verso of frontispiece, some spotting or browning), panelled calf gilt by Riviere, g.e. FIRST FOLIO EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Griffith 79; Rothschild 1585 (vol. I only). Alexander POPE The Dunciad variorum. With the prolegomena of Scriberius , London: printed for A. Dod., 1729. 4°, engraved vignette on title, with addenda leaf (partially erased stamp on title, a few leaves lightly waterstained at inner margin), contemporary panelled calf (rebacked and recornered). FIRST COMPLETE EDITION OF THE FIRST THREE BOOKS and first publication of Virgilius Restauratus (pp. 99-103). Griffith 211; Rothschild 1597. With 2 of Pope's imitations of Horace, The first Epistle of the first Book of Horace imitated and The sixth Epistle of the first Book of Horace imitated (both London, 1737) bound in one volume. (4)
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