An Essay on the Writing and Genius of Pope

by Alexander Pope, Joseph Warton

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. xii, 334 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red and green labels. Slight edge wear. Handsome Copy. Rothschild 2523. Item #211071 Volume I only, although Warton abandoned the second volume for over twenty-five years until 1781, when he was almost certainly fired into action by Johnson's Life of Pope; he took it up again and Dodsley published it in 1782. But the first volume,

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