Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, esq; faithfully collected from authentic authors, original manuscripts, and the testimonies of many persons of credit and honour: with critical observations : Adorned with the heads of diversillustrious persons, treated of in these memoirs, curiously engrav'd by the best hands ... / By William Ayre, esq.

Decorative initials, head- and tailpieces.
Index at end of each vol.
Mispagination: v. 1, p. ix-x misnumbered xi-xii; v. 2, p. 249-251 and 278 misnumbered 149-151 and 276 respectively.
Portraits engraved by Nathaniel Parr are in v. 1 of Pope, Joseph Addison, Mrs. Arabella Fermer, Duke of Buckingham, Bishop Atterbury, Nicholas Rowe, Colley Cibber. In vol. II, Pope, Mrs. Martha Blount, Earl of Burlington, Duchess of Marlborough, Dean Swift, John Gay.
Reduction ratio varies.
Some authorities attribute this work to Edmund Curll. cf. Ralph Straus. The unspeakable Curll.
The second biography of Pope.