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POPE, ALEXANDER. The Works. Volume 1 (of 4). Folding engraved frontispiece portrait of the author by George Vertue. [32], 408 pages, including half-title. Folio, 298x192 mm, 19th-century red straight-grain morocco handsomely gilt by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, cover corners and front joint rubbed; margins trimmed not affecting text, occasional light toning or browning. Bookplate of Clarence S. Bement; presentation inscription dated May 1932 from the American Whig and Cliosophic Societies to John Grier Hibben (1861-1933), presumably on his retirement as President of Princeton University. London: W. Bowyer for Bernard Lintot, 1717
first folio collected edition, first issue, with Bowyer/Lintot imprint. The remaining 3 volumes were published in 1735, 1737, and 1741. Griffith 82; Rothschild 1585.
