London: Printed in the Year, 1727. 12mo, two volumes, original calf.
First authentic edition of Pope's Letters. The work was advertised in The Daily Post of August 12, 1726; the date 1727 on the title is merely a device "to protract a little longer the semblance of novelty."
Portrait of Pope by Clark and Pine in Volume I, and of Swift by Vertue in Volume II.
POPE and SWIFT.—(I.) Miscellanies in prose and verse. The first volume. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, . . . M. dcc. xxvii. (II.) Miscellanies. The second volume. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte . . . M dcc xx vii. (III.) Miscellanies. The third volume. London: Printed for Benj. Motte . . . , and Lawton Gilliver . . . 1732. (IV.) Miscellanies. The last volume. London: Printed for B. Motte, . . . 1727. 8vo, four volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt back.
First edition of Volumes I, II, and IV; second of Volume III.
The Preface is dated Twickenham, May 27, 1727, and signed "Jonath. Swift. Alex. Pope." The Postscript following does not occur in the 12mo edition: "P. S. We could not reſiſt the Opportunity of improving this Collection with two or three Pieces on parallel Subjects, written by Perſons of great Diſtinction, our particular Friends, for which the Publick ought to thank us, and with which it was in the Power of none but our ſelves to have obliged them."
Volume III has 276 pages, a leaf of Errata, and pages 1-100.
POPE, Alexander.—The Dunciad. an Heroic Poem. In three Books, [woodcut of vase of flowers] Dublin, Printed, London Reprinted for A. Dodd. [May 28] 1728. 8vo, brown morocco, blind-tooled, gilt top, uncut edges.
An uncut copy of the first issue of the first edition, measuring 8-1/4 by 5 inches. "B" of Thoms's list, similar to the copy in the British Museum.
The distinguishing marks of this first issue are the misprint, "Book and the man I sing" instead of "Books," page 1, line 1, and the blank page on the verso of H2 instead of an advertisement.