Description
Item Description:Published anonymously. Attributed to Alexander Pope. See ESTC.
"A letter to the publisher" (pages 5-15) signed William Cleland is by Pope himself.
Title page is engraved wiwth a vignette of an ass laden with books, and has been counted as a plate.
Engraved head-pieces; woodcut tail-pieces.
Real publisher was Lawton Gilliver. See Griffith.
Printed by John Wright. See Foxon.
According to Foxon, signatures K1-2 are cancels.
Both of the Cushing Library/Rare Books Collection copies were acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
One of the Cushing Library/Rare Books/Morrison Collection copies is bound with: The Dunciad : book the fourth / by Mr. Pope. With the illustrations of Scriblerus and Notes variorum. The second edition. [London : T. Cooper, 1742].
Physical Description:16 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6, 9-29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 118, cxix-cxxiv pages, [1] leaf of plates ; 26 cm (4to)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Place of Publication:Great Britain -- England -- London, -- manufacture place.