[Rarebooks] FS- Works of Alexander Pope, 8 Vol. Leather

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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others. To Which are Added, A New Life of The Author, An Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq.
Longman, Brown & Co.: J.M. Richardson; Simpkin Marshall & Co.; F. & J. Rivington, et alLongman, Brown & Co.: J.M. Richardson; Simpkin Marshall & Co.; F. & J. Rivington, et al, 1847

Alexander Pope, London,  (1688 -  1744), poet, critic, essayist. The foremost English poet of eighteenth century, classical poet. Pope used the popular form of  "heroic couplets" with exceptional genius creating witty and satiric epic's which became the dominating form of verse in his century. The "New" eight volume set (first published in 1824, 10 volumes): Volume I. Preface, The Life of the Author: friends, & acquaintances; comments on other English poets; comments on his works; Pope's criticism of Wycherley's Poems, and others; his quarrels, etc. Frontispiece, engraving of Alexander Pope from a painting; Volume II. Estimate of the Poetical Character and Writings of Pope, The Author's Preface, Commendatory Poems, Early Poems, To the Author of a Poem intitled Successio, Pastorals: Discourse on Pastoral Poetry, Spring to Sir William Trumbal, Summer to Dr. Garth, Autumn to Mr. Wycherely, Winter, to the Memory of Mrs. Tempest, Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue, Translations and Imitations, Imitations of English Poets, Windsor Forest, to Lord Lansdown, Essay on Criticism, Rape of the Lock, Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady; Volume III. Ode on St. Cecilia's Day, Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus, The Dying Christian to his Soul, Eloisa to Albelard, Epistles, Prologues and Epilogues, Miscellanies, Epitaphs, The "Dunciad," in four books, Appendix: prefaces to imperfect editions of Dunciad, list of books, papers, verses in which Pope was abused before Dunciad, etc.; Volume IV. Essay on Man, in Four Epistles, The Universal Prayer, Moral Essays, Satires; Volume V. Satires, To Lady Frances Shirley, 1740: Poem, Fragments and Fugitive Pieces, including: Epigram on the Toasts of the Kit Kat Club, Poems on reading the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Preface to Works of Shakespeare and Homer's Iliad, etc.; Volume VI. Preface to the first genuine edition of the Correspondence of Pope, in quarto, 1737, Catalogue of the Surreptitious and incorrect Editions of Pope's Letters. Letters: 1705 to 1725: Sir William Trumbal, Mr. Wycherley, William Wals, Esq., Henry Cromwell, Esq., Mr. Steele & Mr. Addison, Hon. James Cragss, Mr. Caryll, Several Noblemen, etc.; Volume VII. Letters, continued; VIII. Letters Between Mr. Pope, Dr. Swift, Mr. Congreve, Mr. Gay, Dr. Berkley, Lord Bolingbroke, Dr. Parnelle, Dr. Arbuthnot, and others from 1712 to 1740. 
Beautiful set, bound in contemporary smooth light brown calf., maroon and black leather title panels with volume numbers, decorated with gilt. Volumes I, II, and IV., have some loss to title panel, only Vol. IV does it affect a letter the second P in Pope. Mild rubbing of spines and boards. Mild surface scratches to boards. Peacock marbled e.p.'s, gilt dentelle to edge of boards. Clean bright text, no inscriptions, hinges tight, solid in bindings. TEG. Each volume is about 430 pp, total of 3705 pages, tall 8 vo. 9 by 5 1/2. 
Clean tightly bound, good size font. 
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