Accession number
PML 6471, 6471A-B
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Published
London : Printed [by John Wright] for A. Dod, 1729.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1910.
Notes
Title vignette.
Engraved title page.
Printer's name from Foxon.
Real publisher was Lawton Gilliver, owner of the copyright since Dec. 1728.
Signatures: a-b⁴ B-O⁴ P² Q-X⁴.
First edition of "Critical apparatus."
"A letter to the publisher" (p. 3-15) signed "William Cleland" is by Pope himself.
The three parts should form one volume, their titles now are "Dunciad Variorum 1729" - "Martinus Scriblerus," n.d., "Dunciad in 3 books."
PML copy with edges uncut.
Engraved title page.
Printer's name from Foxon.
Real publisher was Lawton Gilliver, owner of the copyright since Dec. 1728.
Signatures: a-b⁴ B-O⁴ P² Q-X⁴.
First edition of "Critical apparatus."
"A letter to the publisher" (p. 3-15) signed "William Cleland" is by Pope himself.
The three parts should form one volume, their titles now are "Dunciad Variorum 1729" - "Martinus Scriblerus," n.d., "Dunciad in 3 books."
PML copy with edges uncut.
Description
[4], 3-16 pages; [3], 2-29, [1] pages; [3], 2-118, cxix-cxxiv pages ; 27 cm (4to)
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., by 1910.
Binding
3 pts. bound separately in modern half brown calf with tan linen sides by Duprez Lahey.
Classification
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