POPE'S OWN MISCELLANY. Being a reprint of Poems on Several Occasions 1717 containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others.
Edited by Norman Ault. Pp. xcviii+166(last blank)+[2](colophon, verso blank), publisher's device at centre of title page, one full page facsimile; med. 8vo; dark green buckram, lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards a trifle rubbed; top edges gilt on the rough, others uncut; dust wrapper, edges a trifle chipped and slightly faded, the backstrip with heavier fading and two neat paper reinforcements at head and foot; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly tape marked and with 2 archival tape repairs to the lower free endpaper; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1935. Edition limited to 750 numbered copies printed on Van Gelder paper by John Johnson, Printer to the University, at the University Press, Oxford. McKitterick 100. *The editor, Norman Ault, established that many of the anonymous poems in the Miscellany were by Pope himself. Item #163102
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