Accession number
PML 195757
Creator
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Published
London : Printed by John Wright, for Lawton Gilliver, 1734.
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2011.
Notes
First edition in which the four separately published poems appear as a single poem.
Titlepage in red and black.
Page 54 misnumbered 45.
With a half-title.
Title-page ornament; decorative initials; 6 special head- and tailpieces by Paul Fourdrinier after William Kent. Most of these vignettes previously appeared in Pope's translation of the Iliad.
A fine-paper copy with a Strasbourg Bend watermark and an extra leaf containing a schematic plan for Pope's "Ethic epistles,” including a sequel to the Essay on man. Pope later abandoned that idea and recalled the fine-paper copies, cf. Foxon, Pope and the early eighteenth-century book trade, pp. 124-5; McLaverty, Pope, print and meaning, pp. 110-16.
Laid in are four pages of notes on the Essay on man in an early hand, possibly that of Lord Nugent.
Titlepage in red and black.
Page 54 misnumbered 45.
With a half-title.
Title-page ornament; decorative initials; 6 special head- and tailpieces by Paul Fourdrinier after William Kent. Most of these vignettes previously appeared in Pope's translation of the Iliad.
A fine-paper copy with a Strasbourg Bend watermark and an extra leaf containing a schematic plan for Pope's "Ethic epistles,” including a sequel to the Essay on man. Pope later abandoned that idea and recalled the fine-paper copies, cf. Foxon, Pope and the early eighteenth-century book trade, pp. 124-5; McLaverty, Pope, print and meaning, pp. 110-16.
Laid in are four pages of notes on the Essay on man in an early hand, possibly that of Lord Nugent.
Description
[8], 74 [2] p. : ill. ; 30 cm (4°).
Provenance
Inscribed on flyleaf, “Sir Francis Boileau from Lord Nugent's Library”; book label of J. O. Edwards. Sir Francis George Manningham Boileau married in 1860 Lucy Henrietta Nugent, daughter of Sir George Nugent, cf. Franks, Catalogue of British and American book plates 2952. Sir George Nugent was the great-grandson of the poet Robert Craggs Nugent, Earl Nugent.
Binding
Gilt-tooled vellum over boards, marbled flyleaves.
Classification
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