1711, ISBN: 5db30dad530c2a7b18955508ec24c9e6

London: Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1735. Two volumes in one, as issued. [12], 4, 3-14, 11-159, [1], 163-208, 194, [2], 117-164pp. Without fly-leaf titl… Altro …

London: Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1735. Two volumes in one, as issued. [12], 4, 3-14, 11-159, [1], 163-208, 194, [2], 117-164pp. Without fly-leaf title 'Letters to the Honourable Robert Digby', often excised as those letters that follow are in actuality 'letters to several ladies'. Uncut in recent half-calf, tan cloth boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt, T.E.G. Minor wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, very mild damp-staining to text of gatherings Z-Dd, and occasionally to margins. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, with the recent ink-stamps of the Ben Damph Forest to recto of FFEP and front blank fly-leaf. The first edition of the collected correspondence of poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). In contrast to common eighteenth-century practice, Pope seems not to have followed a the custom of preserving copies of more important letters in their rough draft. As early as 1712 he began to ask friends to return his letters; originally it may have been because he proposed to use them as a basis for periodical essays, but later because he feared some of his letters had been personally or politically indiscreet. There was a considerable interest in his correspondence, and in 1726 and again in 1731 letters by him had come into the public sphere without any consent on the part of their writer. Pope redoubled his requests to his friends to return his letters, and some eventually complied. Thus, when the piratical publisher Edmund Curll advertised for materials for a biography of Pope, Pope was in a good position anonymously to supply him with pages of correspondence he himself had arranged and had even had printed. Curll took the bait, and published in 1735, to an appreciative public, Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, from the Year 1705, to 1711 (in fact letters up to 1734 are included). Pope was now able to disavow this pirated volume, which he had himself carefully shaped, and bring out in 1737 an authorized edition of his Letters. . First edition. 8vo., Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1735, 0<

1735, ISBN: 5db30dad530c2a7b18955508ec24c9e6

edizione con copertina rigida

[PU: Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, London], HISTORY, Two volumes in one, as issued. [12], 4, 3-14, 11-159, [1], 163-208, 194, [2], 117-164pp. Without fly-… Altro …

[PU: Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, London], HISTORY, Two volumes in one, as issued. [12], 4, 3-14, 11-159, [1], 163-208, 194, [2], 117-164pp. Without fly-leaf title 'Letters to the Honourable Robert Digby', often excised as those letters that follow are in actuality 'letters to several ladies'. Uncut in recent half-calf, tan cloth boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt, T.E.G. Minor wear to extremities. Marbled endpapers, very mild damp-staining to text of gatherings Z-Dd, and occasionally to margins. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, with the recent ink-stamps of the Ben Damph Forest to recto of FFEP and front blank fly-leaf. The first edition of the collected correspondence of poet Alexander Pope (1688-1744). In contrast to common eighteenth-century practice, Pope seems not to have followed a the custom of preserving copies of more important letters in their rough draft. As early as 1712 he began to ask friends to return his letters; originally it may have been because he proposed to use them as a basis for periodical essays, but later because he feared some of his letters had been personally or politically indiscreet. There was a considerable interest in his correspondence, and in 1726 and again in 1731 letters by him had come into the public sphere without any consent on the part of their writer. Pope redoubled his requests to his friends to return his letters, and some eventually complied. Thus, when the piratical publisher Edmund Curll advertised for materials for a biography of Pope, Pope was in a good position anonymously to supply him with pages of correspondence he himself had arranged and had even had printed. Curll took the bait, and published in 1735, to an appreciative public, Letters of Mr. Pope, and Several Eminent Persons, from the Year 1705, to 1711 (in fact letters up to 1734 are included). Pope was now able to disavow this pirated volume, which he had himself carefully shaped, and bring out in 1737 an authorized edition of his Letters. Size: 8vo<

1735, ISBN: 5db30dad530c2a7b18955508ec24c9e6

edizione con copertina rigida

[SC: 4.76], [PU: London: printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster], PROSE BSTOCK, Two volumes in one (as issued), pp. [x], 208, 281-286, [2] blank; [ii], 194, [2], 19… Altro …

[SC: 4.76], [PU: London: printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster], PROSE BSTOCK, Two volumes in one (as issued), pp. [x], 208, 281-286, [2] blank; [ii], 194, [2], 199-236, 155-164; contemporary calf, spine and covers with gilt fillet (a little rubbed, slight wear along the top of the lower joint, lacks label). This edition was printed shortly after Griffith 378 (the 'booksellers' edition), but with a proper title-page for volume II; the pagination has to some extent been regularised. The only notable textual change is the expansion of a verse quotation in a footnote on p. 32 from six lines to twelve. However, essentially the type has been reset throughout, with one exception – the section of letters omitted in issue (b) of the first edition which appear here in their original sheets. Griffith concludes, therefore, that this new edition could have consisted of 190 copies only, as that is the number of copies from which these sheets had been deliberately omitted. ESTC, however, records 16 copies of this edition, which suggests that perhaps Griffith's calculations should be revisited. A curious feature of this copy is the fact that the fly-title to the Robert Digby letters, wrongly placed in the preceding issue, has here been again misbound, but between pp. 146 and 147 of vol. II, rather than before p. 133 where it belongs (and where it is in the Bodleian copy, seen online on Google books). Griffith 381. Provenance. Early armorial bookplate of Francis North, 1st Earl of Guilford (1704-1790), of Wroxton Abbey, a wealthy politician and an intimate friend of George III.<