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Alexander Pope Letters; Literary Correspondence, 1737

Alexander Pope Letters; Literary Correspondence, 1737

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New Letters of Mr Alexander Pope, And Several of His Friends. Vellem Nescire Litteras!; Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence, Volume the Fifth, with Letters of Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Lansdowne, Sir Samuel Garth, Mrs Eliza Justice, William Bromley Esq, Pieces of Mr. Walsh.

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Published in London 1737. Printed for E. Curll.

An original 1737 volume of the letters of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), known as one of the great English Poets, and the second most quoted author, after Shakespeare, in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.

A good copy with only a fair cover. Cover is paper over card and is worn, soiled and bumped. Paper sections mounted to first free endpaper for binding. Text is age discolored, but forms a solid block of very legible quality. Scarce.

iv + 250pp + 2pp Parodie on the Imitation of the Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace + 2pp advertisement + 16pp advertisement.

Dimensions: approximately 217mm high x 130mm wide x 25mm deep.

Unpacked weight approximately 300g.