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(POPE, ALEXANDER; et al.) Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. Engraved allegorical frontispiece. [8], 320, [353]-376, [8] pages, including engraved allegorical frontispiece and half-title. 8vo, contemporary panelled calf with morocco lettering piece, small circular label at foot of spine, top of spine slightly chipped, front joint partly cracked; scattered minor foxing. London: Bernard Lintott, 1712
first edition, containing the first appearance of Pope's The Rape of the Lock in its original 2-canto form; the full version in 5 cantos was first published two years later. This collection contains several other poems by Pope, as well as contributions by Dryden and Prior. Case 260(I)(a); Griffith 6; Macdonald 59; Rothschild 1565.
