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12mo, engraved frontispiece and pp. [x], 420; contemporary unlettered calf, lightly gilt (upper joint beginning to split at head). Second edition (though not so designated), with substantial additions; first published in 1709. The poems of the first edition have been compressed into pp. 1-284, and Pope's Pastorals, also in the first edition, are in a separate section at the end (pp. 407-20). This means that the new material, including older poems by Davenant, Corbet, etc, along with more recent poems such as Addison's Campaign and Garth's Claremont, occupies more than a hundred pages. There is also a new frontispiece, designed and engraved by Louis du Guernier. Griffith 61; Case 172 (6)(b).

12mo, engraved portrait frontispiece (of Pope) and 264; a fine unpressed copy in contemporary Irish sheep, spine with morocco label, gilt ornament in spine (head of spine slightly chipped). Contemporary armorial bookplate, with MS name inserted 'Revd Tho Greene', and the same name signed on the title page. Second edition: first printed the year before, with exactly the same number of pages; and this could be a reissue or a reprint from standing type. Even so, copies of either edition are very rare: ESTC locates just four copies of the 1770 edition (National Library of Ireland, Kansas, Toronto and Virginia) and four of this (BL, Bodleian, Kansas and Yale). The contents of this book are a good index of what was considered classic modern verse: pieces by Pope lead the way, and even today we now would recognise many of the others - Gray's Elegy, Goldsmith's Traveller and Deserted Village, and Blair's The Grave.

Folio, pp. 23, [1] advertisements; disbound. First edition. A literary poem, largely about Alexander Pope, for whom the anonymous author has warm praise; there are also allusions to Gay, Young, Fielding, James Ralph, and other writers of the day. Several of Pope's poems many of them printed or distributed by Lawton Gilliver and Mrs Dod are advertised on the final page. This is quite a well-written poem, whose couplets catch the spirit of Horace's defence of the art of satire; the Latin text is printed on facing pages. Foxon S81; Guerinot, Pamphlet attacks on Pope, p. 338.

8vo, engraved frontispiece and pp. [viii], 320; [353]-376, [8] advertisements; bound in old sprinkled calf, gilt, rebacked, spine gilt, red morocco labels; edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A sound copy. First edition of one of the most important miscellanies of the early 18th century, almost certainly edited by Pope, as was first proposed by Norman Ault in his New Light on Pope (1948). Most notable here is the first appearance of Pope's Rape of the Locke [sic], in two cantos (pp. 353-376); the poem was subsequently expanded to five cantos, and printed separately in 1714. 'The story of its composition is well known. John Caryll, something of a mediating figure among the Catholic gentry of the time, was sufficiently disturbed by an estrangement caused between the Petre and Fermor families when Robert Lord Petre cut a love-lock from the pretty head of Arabella Fermor that he asked Pope to write something to make a jest of the incident, 'and laugh them together'.' (Maynard Mack, p. 248). There is no evidence that Pope had ever met Miss Fermor, portrayed here as Belinda. The poem adopts the conventions of mock-heroic, and represents, in an essentially affectionate though sometimes daring way, the absurdities of the fashionable world, where trifles were liable to be magnified to epic proportions. Six other pieces by Pope are first printed in this volume: (i) The First Book of Statius his Thebaid (pp. 1-56); (ii) The Fable of Vertumnus and Pomona; from the fourteenth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (pp. 129-136); (iii) To a Young Lady, with the Works of Voiture (pp. 137-142); (iv) Two copies of Verses, written some years since in imitation of the style of two persons of quality (pp. 143-146); (v) To the Author of a Poem, intitled Successio (pp. 147-148); and (vi) Verses design'd to be prefix'd to Mr. Lintott's Miscellany (pp. 174-175). The last of these is not signed, but was claimed by Pope in a letter to his friend Henry Cromwell, first printed by Edmund Curll in 1727. The volume also includes contributions from Matthew Prior, John Gay, William Broome, Edmund Smith, Elijah Fenton, and several others. There are in addition two modernisations of Chaucer by the late Thomas Betterton, who died in 1710. Pope had known Betterton since his boyhood, and it is likely that he had a hand in polishing the two poems for publication, as he was paid £5 7s 6d for his efforts, a sum he turned over to Betterton's widow, a day or two before her own death. Various scholars have claimed that the gap in pagination in this volume can be explained by Pope's late withdrawal of Windsor Forest and the Ode for Musick, which he had decided to publish separately. Foxon rejects this hypothesis, and argues convincingly that the irregularity was caused by the fact that portions of the volume were printed separately, so that Pope could rewrite in proof, as had been done with Tonson's miscellany in 1709. Griffith 6; Case 260 (1)(a); Rothschild 1565.