The works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in prose : Vol. II
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Type of record: Book
Title: The works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in prose : Vol. II
Classmark: BC Lt q/POP
Creator(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)
Publisher: printed for J. and P. Knapton, C. Bathurst, and R. Dodsley
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1741
Language: English
Size and medium: vi,[10],115,[1];89-182;[3],326-339,[1];75,[3];[5],208-270;[1],182-188;[1],278-304,[3],266-179[i.e.279],[1]p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/277754
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000607049705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Title-page in red and black.
With a half-title, repeating the title and adding: "Containing the rest of his letters, with the Memoirs of Scriblerus.. and other tracts ... [etc.]".
"Directions to the binder" in verso of half-title gives contents as: 1. Letters 2. Thoughts on various subjects 3. Memoirs of Scriblerus 4. M. Scribleri Peri Bathous, or of the Art of sinking 5. M. Scribleri Virgilirs restaurants 6. M. Scriblerus Essay on the origins of sciences 7. Memoirs of a parish-clerk 8. Guardians 9. Key to the Lock.
The sheets originally printed to be the concluding portion of the quarto Letters of 1737 were withheld in the warehouse to form group "u" of the Works of 1741. An errata list contains corrections for both the quarto and folio editions of the Letters.
The sheets and page numbers were printed in groups, the resulting pagination being extremely irregular (cf Griffith for details).
Pp.269-279 in the final section misnumbered 169-179.
Indexed in: Griffith 531; Teerink 60A, principally Swift's letters.
Additional description
Ms. annotation, ca.1750/1800, on flyleaf reads HB. pr: sheets 1:1:0 binding 9:6 . Lettered on spine: Pope's prose works. Vol. 2
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