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(POPE, ALEXANDER.) Poetical Miscellanies: The Sixth Part, Containing a Collection of Original Poems,with Several New Translations. By the Most Eminent Hands. Engraved allegorical frontispiece. [12], 172, 177-224, 221-298, 30-632, [721]-751 pages. 8vo, brown levant handsomely gilt by the Club Bindery, front joint starting at top; contents toned, small oxidized stain on frontispiece. London: Jacob Tonson, 1709
first edition. pope's first appearance in print, containing his Pastorals on pages [721]-737 and translations from Chaucer (177-224) and Homer (301-323). "The irregularities in signatures and pagination indicate that the book was built around Pope's contributions"--Case 172(6)(a). Griffith 1; Teerink-Scouten 520 (for poems by Swift on pages 237-48 and 249-51) .
