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._

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]