In the first issue the verso of H2 is blank; in the second it contains an announcement: "Speedily will be Publiſhed The Progress of Dulness, an Historical Poem. By an Eminent Hand. Price 1s. 6d."
Signature A of the first issue is not lettered; the first page of the Preface in the second is lettered A3.
Page vii of the Preface in the first issue is lettered "b"; in the second issue it is unlettered, making six leaves in A, the present issue being a 12mo in sixes, the first an 8vo in fours, with corresponding alterations in signature marks.
Collation: I. Owl frontispiece (No. 1), A1 (recto blank). Title with woodcut of a vase of flowers, A2 (verso blank). "The Publisher to the Reader," A3-A5. Pages i-viii. Half-title, A6 (verso blank). Text, B1-F2 (verso advertisement, "Speedily will be Publiſhed," etc.), in sixes. Pages 1-51.
II. Title with woodcut, A1 (verso blank). "To the Public," A2-A3. Key, A4-A8 and B1-B3. Pages 1-22. "Six New Books, just Publiſh'd," B4.
POPE, Alexander.—The Dunciad. an Heroic Poem. In three books. The Second Edition. Dublin, Printed; London, Reprinted for A. Dodd. 1728. 12mo, maroon morocco, blind-tooled, gilt top, uncut edges.
"D" of Thoms's list. Presumably the third issue of the first edition, although the title-page says "second edition." The Address from the Publisher to the Reader appears to have been printed from the same forms as the two preceding issues ("B" and "C" of Thoms's list), because of many similarities of dropped letters and defective types. The text was probably printed from the same type reimposed to admit of the interpolation of notes, e.g., on page 5, "Lord Mayor of London" is added to the note, "Sir Geo. Tho—"; on page 6, line 94, "And furious D—n" is changed to "D—s"; on page 7 two notes are added, "Old Printers." and "§ Philemon Holland." On page 22 the addition of a note of three lines necessitated the transference of two lines of text to the top of page 23; "Spirts," line 159, page 23, is here correctly printed, whereas in the previous issue it is "Spirits." The advertisement of "The Progress of Dulness" on the verso of F2 does not occur here.
Lieut.-Col. Francis Grant's copy.
Collation: Owl frontispiece (No. 1), A1 (recto blank). Title with ornament of a vase of flowers, other flowers at the side, A2 (verso blank). "The Publisher to the Reader," A3-A5. Pages i-viii. Half-title, A6 (verso blank). Text, B1-F2 (verso blank), in sixes. Pages 1-51.
POPE, Alexander.—The Dunciad. an Heroic Poem. In three books. [Square printer's ornament] Dublin, Printed, London Reprinted for A. Dodd. 1728. 12mo, maroon morocco, blind-tooled, gilt top, uncut edges.