POPE, Alexander. Letters of the Late Alexander Pope to a Lady, Never Before Published, London, for J. Dodsley, 1769, 8°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed on the half title: "F. Cecilia Cowper," describing (in the same hand) the "Lady" of the title as "My dear Grandmother Mrs. Judith Madan, author of 'The Progress of Poetry'" (1702-81) [Pope's "Erinna," and Aunt of William Cowper], and on the title: "Maria Fran. Cecilia Cowper Holles Street July 24 1779," contemporary half calf (rubbed) -- [COWPER, William.] Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views, in, or near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks, London, by Vernor and Hood [and others], 1803, 8°, ASSOCIATION COPY, BELONGING TO COWPER'S BARBER, inscribed on title: "W. Wilson", engraved additional title, and 12 plates, tissue guards (some staining throughout), contemporary half calf (lightly rubbed).

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POPE, Alexander. Letters of the Late Alexander Pope to a Lady, Never Before Published, London, for J. Dodsley, 1769, 8°, FIRST EDITION, ASSOCIATION COPY, inscribed on the half title: "F. Cecilia Cowper," describing (in the same hand) the "Lady" of the title as "My dear Grandmother Mrs. Judith Madan, author of 'The Progress of Poetry'" (1702-81) [Pope's "Erinna," and Aunt of William Cowper], and on the title: "Maria Fran. Cecilia Cowper Holles Street July 24 1779," contemporary half calf (rubbed) -- [COWPER, William.] Cowper, Illustrated by a Series of Views, in, or near, the Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks, London, by Vernor and Hood [and others], 1803, 8°, ASSOCIATION COPY, BELONGING TO COWPER'S BARBER, inscribed on title: "W. Wilson", engraved additional title, and 12 plates, tissue guards (some staining throughout), contemporary half calf (lightly rubbed).
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Provenance: I. Judith Madan [1702-81]; and by descent to her daughter, the inscriptee, Maria Francis Cecilia Cowper; II. William Wilson: "Of his neighbours, none was more in his company than Wilson the barber, a worthy whom the poet reckoned amongst the men of best intelligence in the town." (Thomas Wright The Life of William Cowper, 1892).

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