Half-title, "Epistles of Horace, imitated," A1 recto. Advertisement, A1 verso-A2 recto. Text, A2 verso-L1 (verso blank). Pages 1-81. Half-title, "The First Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace," L2 recto. Text, L2 verso-L5 (verso blank). Pages 1-7.
III. Title, one leaf (verso Notice). Text in two Dialogues, B1-D5 (verso blank), in fours. Pages 1-25, misprinted 23; 19 misprinted 91.
POPE, Alexander.—The New Dunciad: As it was found In the Year m dcc xli. With the Illustrations of Scriblerus, and Notes Variorum. London, Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noſter Row. M DCCXLII. [Price 1s. and 6d.] 4to, red levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by David.
"P" of Thoms's list.
Second edition of Book IV of the Dunciad, containing 44 pages, and 620 lines instead of 618. Lines 39-40 in the first edition,
"Oft her gay Siſter's life and ſpirit fled;
But Hiſtory and Satire held their head:"
are here expanded into four lines, 39-42:—
"But ſober Hiſtory reſtrain'd her rage,
And promis'd Vengeance on a barb'rous Age:
There ſunk Thalia, nerve-leſs, faint, and dead,
Had not her Siſter Satire held her head:"
Collation: Half-title, "The New Dunciad," A1 (verso blank). Title, A2 (verso blank). "To the Reader," A3. Argument, A4. Book IV, B1-G2 in fours. Pages 1-44.
POPE, Alexander.—The Dunciad, in four books. Printed according to the complete Copy found in the Year 1742. With the Prolegomena of Scriblerus, and Notes Variorum. To which are added, Several Notes now firſt publiſh'd, the Hypercritics of Aristarchus, and his Diſſertation on the Hero of the Poem. [Two lines from Ovid] London, Printed for M. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row, M DCC XLIII. 4to, red levant morocco, gilt back, side borders, gilt top, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.