The Dunciad, Variorum. With the Prolgomena of Scriblerus

by Alexander Pope

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First Edition of the complete text of Books I-III, with the satirical apparatus added. Engraved title-page with ass eating thistles, carrying books and journals in a pannier with an owl perched on the books Varietry 1 . iv , 118, cxix-cxxiv opp. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf. Spine with some wear. Griffith 211 p. 165-166 ; Foxon P771. Item #260861

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