First complete edition. "R" of Thoms's list.
Collation: Half-title, "The Dunciad," etc., lettered A (verso blank). Title, A2 (verso Announcement, "Speedily will be publiſh'd," etc.). "Advertisement to the Reader," signed W. W.[arburton], A3. "By Authority," with royal arms, A4 (verso blank). Half-title, "Martinus Scriblerus," etc., A5 (verso blank). Quotations, A6. Cleland's "Letter to the Publisher," A1 (repeated)-A4. "Testimonies of Authors," B1-D1 verso. "Martinus Scriblerus of the Poem," D1 verso-D3 verso. "Ricardus Aristarcus of the Hero of the Poem," D3 verso-E3 (verso "Argument to Book the First"). Text in four Books, E4-Z4 and Aa1-Cc4, in fours. Half-title of Appendix, Dd1 (verso blank). Appendix, Dd2-Gg2 (verso blank). Pages i-vi, two unnumbered leaves, ix-x, i-xxxvii, two unnumbered pages and 40-235. Author's Declaration before the Mayor, Dd1. "Index of Persons," Dd2-Dd3 recto. "Index of Matters," etc., Dd3 verso-Ee2.
POPE, Alexander.—The Dunciad, in four books. 1743. 4to, red levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt top, uncut edges, by David.
Another copy, with a different collation of the preliminary leaves.
Collation: Half-title, A1 (verso blank). Title, A2 (verso "Speedily will be publiſ'd"). "By Authority," A3 (verso blank). "Advertisement to the Reader," A4. Half-title, "Martinus Scriblerus," etc., one leaf (verso blank). "Letter to the Publisher," A1-A4. Quotations, one leaf, numbered 3 at the bottom of the recto and [ix]-[x] at the top. From this point on the collation follows the preceding copy.
POPE, Alexander.—A Miscellany on Taste. By Mr. Pope, &c. Viz. I. Of Taste in Architecture. An Epiſtle to the Earl of Burlington. With Notes Variorum, and a Compleat Key. II. Of Mr. Pope's Taste in Divinity, viz. The Fall of Man, and the First Psalm. Tranſlated for the Uſe of a Young Lady. III. Of Mr. Pope's Taste of Shakeſpeare. IV.——His Satire on Mrs. P——y. V. Mr. Congreve's fine Epistle on Retirement and Taste. Addreſs'd to Lord Cobham. [Two lines from Gay] London: Printed; and ſold by G. Lawton, . . . T. Osborn, . . . and J. Hughes. . . . 1732. Price 1s. 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Frontispiece designed by Hogarth, representing Pope on a scaffolding white-washing Burlington House, while the Earl, as a labourer, climbs a ladder.
A pirated edition of Pope's fourth Moral Essay, "Of Taste," folio, 1731.
POPE, Alexander.—(I.) An Essay on Man. Addreſs'd to a Friend. [Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke] Part I. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-luces, be-hind the Chapter-houſe, St. Pauls. [Price One Shilling.] [1732] (II.) An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend. Epistle II. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the Chapter-Houſe, St. Paul's. [Price One Shilling.] (III.) An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend. Epistle III. London: Printed for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces, behind the Chapter-Houſe, St. Paul's. [Price One Shilling.] Folio, brown levant morocco, gilt back and sides, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
It is difficult to determine the priority of the various editions of the four Epistles composing this Essay. Whereas there were once supposed to be only four editions, it is now generally conceded that there are ten or eleven, two of the First Epistle with "Part I." on the title-page, two of the First with "Epistle I." on the title-page, three of the Second, two of the Third, and one of the Fourth.