Collation: Title, A1 (verso blank). "Pieces contained," etc., A2 (verso blank). Advertisement, A3, misprinted A4-A4 recto. "A Letter to the Publisher," A4 verso-B2. Quotations, B3. "Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem," B4-B7. "Testimonies of Authors," B8-D7, in eights. Half-title, D8 (verso blank). Text, E1-O8, O3 misprinted N3. "By the Author, a Declaration," in black letter, dated January 3, 1732, and given before John Barber, Mayor, P1. "Index of Persons," P2-P3 (verso "Index of Authors"). Appendix, P4-Q6 recto. "Index of Things," Q6 verso-R4 (verso blank). Pages 1-263, 225 misprinted 125.
POPE, Alexander.—[Half-title] The Dunciad, in three books, Written in the Year 1727. with Notes Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus. [1735] Folio, brown levant morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Part of Pope's Works, Volume II, folio, 1735. Ass vignette, No. 4, on F1 verso, and on F2 recto a headband engraved P. F.[ourdrinier] after W. K[ent].
Collation: Half-title, B1 (verso blank). "A Letter to the Publisher," A2-E1 (verso Quotations) in twos. Arguments, E2-F1, ending with the Ass vignette, No. 4. Book I, F2-I2 recto. Book II, I2 verso-O1. Book III, O2-S2 (verso blank). "By the Author, a Declaration," T1. Index, T2. Half-title, "Martinus Scriblerus," etc., U1 (verso blank). "Martinus Scriblerus his Prolegomena," U2-Z2 and Aa1—Cc1. "Notes variorum," Cc2-Zz2 and Aaa1 recto. Appendix, Aaa1 verso-Eee1 recto. Index to the Dunciad, Eee1 verso-Fff2 (verso "Index of the Authors of the Notes"). Pages 1-185, last page unnumbered.
POPE, Alexander.—(I.) The New Dunciad: As it was Found In the Year 1741. With the Illustrations of Scriblerus and Notes Variorum. London: Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noſter Row. MDCCXLII. [Price 1s. and 6d.] (II.) [Epistles of Horace] (III.) Poems and Imitations of Horace. By Mr. Pope. Now firſt Collected together. [One line from Horace] London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, L. Gilliver, J. Brindley, and R. Dodsley. M dcc xxx viii. 4to, three works in one volume, contemporary red morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges.
"O" of Thoms's list.
First edition of Book IV of the Dunciad, containing 39 pages. The second work, the Epistles, has no general title. The Latin text is on the verso of the page, the English on the recto, facing each other.
Collation: I. Half-title, "The New Dunciad" A1 (verso blank). Title, A2 (verso blank). "To the Reader," A3. Argument, A4. Book IV, B1-F4 (verso blank), ending with four lines of Errata, in fours. Pages 1-39.
[Epistles] Half-title, "The First Epistle of the First Book of Horace, B1 recto. Text in Latin and English, B1 verso-D4 (verso blank), ending with two tail-pieces engraved by P. Fourdrinier.
Half-title, "The Sixth Epistle of the First Book of Horace," E1 recto. Text, E1 verso-F4 (verso blank). Pages 1-39.