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Item 38610The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq.

(Moore, Clement Clarke) Pope, Alexander.

Price: $750

Edinburgh: Printed by James Donaldson, 1789. Clement Clarke Moore's Set. Signed by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) of A Visit from St. Nicholas (more commonly known today as Twas the Night Before Christmas) and dated in pencil on the ffep in Volume 6. Read More Item Details for The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq Add to Wish List

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Item 323926An Essay on Man. Address’d to a Friend. Part I [Large Paper Copy]. [Bound with:] An Essay on Man. In...

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $2,750

London: Printed for J. Willford, [1733]; [1734]. First edition. Read More Item Details for An Essay on Man. Address’d to a Friend. Part I [Large Paper Copy]. [Bound with:] An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend. Epistle II [And:] Epistle III [And:] Epistle IV Add to Wish List

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Item 314888The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Nine Volumes, Complete, withy Notes and Illustrations by Joseph Warton, D.D. and others...

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $2,000

London: printed for B. Law, J. Johnson et al, 1796-1797. Read More Item Details for The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Nine Volumes, Complete, withy Notes and Illustrations by Joseph Warton, D.D. and others WITH: His Translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey of Homer...A New Edition, with additional , critical and Illustrative by Gilbert Wakefield in 11 volumes printed by H. Baldwin for T. Longman, B. Law, et al Add to Wish List

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Item 308222The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books.

[Pope, Alexander].

Price: $25,000

[London]: Dublin, Printed, London Reprinted for A. Dodd, 1728. First edition. The distinguished Hagen-Pforzheimer-Slater copy of the first edition of Pope's satirical masterpiece, a mock-epic reply to his critics (primarily Lewis Theobald) and other hack writers, as well as a broader critique of George II and Walpole. Published anonymously under..... Read More Item Details for The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books Add to Wish List

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Item 308112The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $300

London: L. Gilliver, 1737 [but 1738]. First edition. Pope's imitation of Horace's poem on the art of living well. Rare for Pope, a bibliographically straightforward book. Read More Item Details for The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated Add to Wish List

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Item 308111The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $350

London: T. Cooper, 1737. First edition. With second state of p. 21 with catchword "38 Charles" and press-marks iii-2, iv-†, 3-†, 6-3, 9-4, 10-1, 15-†, 17-4, 19-4, 22-1 corresponding to Todd's edition A. Read More Item Details for The First Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated Add to Wish List

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Item 308108The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace … Imitated in a Dialogue Between Alexander Pope of Twickenham …...

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $400

London: printed by L[awton] G[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd, E. Nutt, 1733. First edition, first issue (no comma after "Pope" on title). The first effort in Pope's series of loose translations and reworkings of Horatian satires and epistles, his Imitations of Horace (1733-8). “[T]hrough the enabling example of Horace..... Read More Item Details for The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace … Imitated in a Dialogue Between Alexander Pope of Twickenham … on the One Part, and His Learned Council on the Other Add to Wish List

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Item 308096The Works [with] … Volume II.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $2,500

London: W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot; J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1717; 1735. First editions, quarto issue, first issue without Tonson in imprint. First edition of the two-volume Works, uniformly bound. Like Pope's Homer, the Works were issued in quarto, folio and large folio formats. Griffith notes eleven pieces first..... Read More Item Details for The Works [with] … Volume II Add to Wish List

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Item 308095Ode for Musick.

[Pope, Alexander].

Price: $10,000

London: Bernard Lintott, 1713. First edition. The Terry-Slater Copy. Rare first edition of Pope's Ode for Music on St. Cecilia's Day, completed in 1711 at the suggestion of Richard Steele. Lintott paid Pope £15 for the copyright. ABPC records three sales of the first edition; the Locker-Lampson copy (in 1984..... Read More Item Details for Ode for Musick Add to Wish List

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Item 308094Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands.

[Pope, Alexander (contributor and probable editor)].

Price: $3,000

London: Bernard Lintott, 1712. First edition. First Appearance of The Rape of the Lock. First edition of Lintott's Miscellany containing the first printing of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock" in its shorter two-canto form. Five poems carry Pope's name, though "The Rape of the Lock" was published anonymously. The..... Read More Item Details for Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands Add to Wish List

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Item 302519Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of His Friends; The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $1,000

London: J. Wright for J. Knapton, et al; J. and P. Knapton, C. Bathurst, and R. Dodsley, 1737; 1741. First authorized edition of the letters, quarto issue, with first letter in vol. I incorrectly dated 1724. The first authorized edition of Pope's letters, though "the letters are a reprint of..... Read More Item Details for Letters of Mr. Alexander Pope, and Several of His Friends; The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose Add to Wish List

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Item 268157One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight. A dialogue something like Horace. By Mr. Pope.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $250

London: Printed T. Cooper, [1738]. First edition (Griffith edition A, variant a). Read More Item Details for One thousand seven hundred and thirty eight. A dialogue something like Horace. By Mr. Pope Add to Wish List

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Item 256488The Works of...In nine volumes, complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements: together with the commentary and notes of...

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $900

London: A. Millar, J. and R. Tonson, C. Bathurst, H. Woodfall, R. Baldwin, W. Johnston, B. Law, T. Longman, T. Caslon, Johnson and Davenport, and M. Richardson, 1766. V.1: Juvenile Poems. V.2: Translations and Imitations. V.3: Moral essays. V.4: Satires. V.5: Dunciad. V.6: Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose. V.7-9..... Read More Item Details for The Works of...In nine volumes, complete. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements: together with the commentary and notes of his editor Add to Wish List

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Item 242623The Works of.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $350

London: John Murray, 1871-86. New edition. Read More Item Details for The Works of Add to Wish List

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Item 236446Pope's Own Miscellany. Being a reprint of Poems on Several Occasions 1717 containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others...

(Nonesuch Press) Pope, Alexander.

Price: $300

London: Nonesuch Press, 1935. #362 of 750 copies designed by Francis Meynell and printed on Van Gelder paper. A reprint of Pope's anonymously published miscellany, POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, of which only four copies survive. Many poems reprinted here for the first time. Read More Item Details for Pope's Own Miscellany. Being a reprint of Poems on Several Occasions 1717 containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others. Edited by Norman Ault Add to Wish List

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Item 260861The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolgomena of Scriblerus.

Pope, Alexander.

Price: $500

London: Printed by A. Dod (i.e. Dodd, the widowed Mrs. Dodd still carrying on business under her husband's name), 1729. First Edition of the complete text of Books I-III, with the satirical apparatus added. Read More Item Details for The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolgomena of Scriblerus Add to Wish List

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