IV. Title with ornament of a vase of flowers, A1 (verso blank). Text, A2-E2 (verso blank), in twos. Pages 1-19.
POPE, Alexander.—The Universal Prayer. By the Author of the Essay on Man. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's-Head, in Pall-mall. M dcc xxx viii. (Price Six-Pence.) Folio, red morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition. Title and three leaves without signatures.
POPE, Alexander.—(I.) One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. A Dialogue Something like Horace. By Mr. Pope. London: Printed for T. Cooper at the Globe in Pater-noſter-row. (Price One Shilling.) [1738] (II.) One Thousand Seven Hundred and Thirty Eight. Dialogue II. By Mr. Pope. London: Printed for R. Dodsley at Tully's Head in Pall-mall, M dcc xxx viii. (Price One Shilling.) Folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery.
First editions.
Collation: I. Half-title, A1 (verso blank). Title with ornament of a basket of flowers, A2 (verso blank). Text, B1-D1, in twos. Pages 1-10. "Books lately Printed for T. Cooper," D2 (verso blank).
II. Title with ornament as in I, A1 (verso blank). Text, A2-D2, in twos. Pages 1-16.
POPE, Alexander.—Verses Upon the Late D——ſs of M——. [Duchess of Marlborough] By Mr. P——. [woodcut] London: Printed for W. Webb, near St. Paul's, 1746. (Price Sixpence.) Small folio, red levant morocco, by The Club Bindery.
The Announcement on the last page reads: "These Verſes are Part of a Poem, entitled Characters of Women. It is generally ſaid, the D——ſs gave Mr. P. 1000 l. to ſuppreſs them: He took the Money, yet the World ſees the Verſes; but this is not the firſt Inſtance where Mr. P's practical Virtue has fallen very ſhort of thoſe pompous Profeſſions of it he makes in his Writings."
Collation: [No signatures] Title with woodcut of a winged man with a scythe and a headless statue, one leaf (verso blank). Text, two leaves, on the verso of the second, an Announcement. Pages 1-5, last page unnumbered.