Collation: Title with ornament, A1 (verso blank). Text, A2-E2, in twos. Pages 1-18.
POPE, Alexander.—The Rape of the Lock. an heroi-comical Poem. In Five Canto's. Written by Mr. Pope.—A tonſo eſt hoc nomen adepta capillo. Ovid. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Croſs-Keys in Fleetſtreet. 1714. 8vo, original covers, uncut, in silk chemise, and green levant morocco case.
First separate edition, and the earliest to contain the machinery of the Sylphs. Frontispiece and five plates by Du Bosc after Du Guernier.
Collation: Title in red and black, A1 (verso blank). Dedication to Mrs. Arabella Fermor, A2-A4 (verso blank). Text, B1-D8, in eights. Pages 1-48; 29 misprinted, 26 and 44 and 45 reversed.
POPE, Alexander.—The Rape of the Lock. 1714. 8vo, red levant morocco, back and sides elaborately tooled in compartments of mosaic in ivory, dark, and light green morocco, doubled with red morocco, gilt borders, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Another copy, printed upon thick paper.
Collation: The same as the preceding copy.
POPE, Alexander.—The Rape of the Lock. an heroi-comical Poem. In Five Canto's. Written by Mr. Pope.—A tonſo eſt hoc nomen adepta capillo. Ovid. The Second Edition. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, at the Croſs-Keys in Fleet-ſtreet. 1714. 8vo, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Rivière.
Frontispiece and five plates engraved by Du Bosc after Du Guernier.
Collation: The same as the first edition, but with no errors in pagination.