[Rarebooks] fa: ALEXANDER POPE - ODE FOR MUSICK ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY - 1719

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Alexander Pope: Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia's Day. Written by Mr. Pope. The third [i.e., second] edition. London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, at the Cross-Keys between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street, MDCCXIX [1719]. Slim 8vo (20 cm) in modern calf-backed boards; 12, [2] pp;, with the engraved frontispiece and terminal leaf of publisher's adverts. ESTC T5695; Foxon P905; Griffith 110.

Though a stated third edition, this is actually only the second separately issued edition of Pope's Ode, and the first with the frontispiece (by Gribelin, Jun., after Cheron). The work was first published in 1713. Pinholes near the gutter from the original stitched binding, some light toning to the page edges, but clean and crisp and firmly bound in a fine, fresh modern calf-backed binding. A nice copy.