POPE, Alexander. Works. London: [various printers and publishers], 1717-[1739-1739]-1737-1741.

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POPE, Alexander. Works. London: [various printers and publishers], 1717-[1739-1739]-1737-1741.

5 volumes, 4° and 2° (281 x 220mm.). Some titles in red and black. Folding engraved portrait frontispiece to vol.I (torn), various vignette illustrations or decorations (occasional browning, vol.I: repaired tears to two leaves, vol.II: lacks first blank, B3 in final part holed with loss of one character of headline, vol.III: half-title from vol.II bound as title, repaired tear in one leaf, vol.V: blank Aa4 lacking). Contemporary red morocco gilt with black morocco onlays, g.e. (joints and corners repaired, spines chipped and cracked). Provenance: Francis Love Beckford (armorial bookplate).

Vol.I: 4°, Griffith 79; vol.II: 'thick paper' 4°, a variant of Griffith 514 with One Thousand Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue. and ...Dialogue II. supplied using folio sheets of Griffith 484 (or 485) and 494; vol.III: 'thick paper' 4°, Griffith 515; vol.IV: small 2°, Griffith 457; vol.V: 4°, Griffith 531. (5)

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