ENGLISH VERSE -- A collection of four 18th-century works, in verse, all folio, in one vol., contemporary half calf over marbled boards, comprising:

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ENGLISH VERSE -- A collection of four 18th-century works, in verse, all folio, in one vol., contemporary half calf over marbled boards, comprising:
a) [POPE, Alexander.] An Essay on Man Part I, London, for J. Wilford, [1733], FIRST EDITION, 10ll. (title slightly soiled, centre fold marks) [Foxon P822; Griffith 294; Rothschild 1613]; An Essay on Man Epistle II, London, for J. Wilford, [1733], FIRST EDITION with lines numbered (erroneously), 10ll. (half title slightly torn along fold mark and a trifle soiled, E1 torn at lower margin and with small waterstain) [Foxon P833; Griffith 300; Rothschild 1613-15]; An Essay on Man in Epistles to a Friend, Epistle III, London, for J. Wilford, [1733], FIRST EDITION, 10ll. (centre fold-marks) [Foxon P840; Griffith 308; Rothschild 1613-15]; An Essay on Man in Epistles to a Friend, Epistle IV, London, for J. Wilford, [1734], FIRST EDITION, 12ll. including final advertisement [P845; Griffith 331; Rothschild 1613-15]
b) [HARTE, Walter.] An Essay on Reason, London, by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1735, FIRST EDITION, 18ll. including final advertisement [Foxon H93]
c) [TRAPP, JOSEPH] Thoughts upon the Four Last Things, Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell, London, for Lawton Gilliver, 1734, 4 parts, FIRST EDITION, Pt. I: 17ll., including 3 inserted leaves (advertisement and contents), Pt. II: 13ll. (title not bound in), Pt. III: 12ll. (title not bound in), Pt. IV: 15ll. including 3pp. notes at end (title not bound in, advertisement and contents bound into Pt. I [Foxon T456; T458; T459; T460]
d) [MORRICE, Bezaleel.] On Rural Felicity in an Epistle to a Friend, London, printed and sold by J. Wilford, 1733, FIRST EDITION (?), 10ll., title with woodcut vignette of a cart-horse, engraved headpiece [Foxon M487: "Possibly previously published as The Felicity of a Country Life (1732)"]

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