The works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in verse and prose. . Containing the principal notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: illustrations, and critical and explanatory remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, F.S.A. and others. To which are added, ... some original letters, with ... memoirs of the life of the author. By the Rev. William Lisle Bowles ... In ten volumes. Vol. I. (-X).
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744)
Category
Books
Date
1806
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Chastleton House, Oxfordshire
NT 3159823
Summary
Bibliographic description
10v., plates . ill.., ports.. . 8vo. Imperfect: vols. 1, 2, 4 - 6, 9 - 10 only. Vol.1 Upper and lower boards, and front flyleaves disbound. Pencil markings on front flyleaf verso and half-title. Vol. 2 Wanting upper and lower boards, most of spine, and all pages after page 446. Vol. 4 Upper and lower boards and spine strips disbound. Vol. 5 Upper boards disbound, lower boards disbound and wanting, spine disbound and attached to phase box. Final two leaves torn. Vol. 9 Upper boards disbound, lower boards disbound and wanting. Spine cover mostly disbound and wanting. Pencil marks on front flyleaf verso. Vol. 10 Upper and lower boards detached, most of spine disbound and wanting. Provenance: in vols. 1, 4. 9 and 10, adhered to front pastedown, armorial plate of Henry Rowland Brandreth (1794-1848). Binding: Half calf, marbled-paper boards, boards detached, spines damaged. Nineteenth-century half leather (worn), marbled paper boards. Brown endpapers.
Makers and roles
Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744) William Lisle Boles (1762-1850) Warburton William Warton (1698-1779) William Warburton (1698 - 1779)