The Works with … Volume II

by Alexander Pope

$2,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First editions, quarto issue, first issue without Tonson in imprint. Large folding frontispiece portrait of Pope by G. Vertue after Jervas, engraved vignettes, engraved head- and tailpiece, woodcut and engraved initials. xxxii , 435, 1 ; viii , 76, 41 -71, 1 , 7 -27, 1 , 39 -78, 2 , 87, 1 , 14, 19, 1 , 219, 1 pp. O2 and 2X4 in vol. I are cancels. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels. Labels chipped, joint

• Binding: Leather

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