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Hard cover 8vo in decorative brown cloth blocked in black and gold with author's name within a reverse band of Victorian designed lilies, with a vignette below which features bow tied scrolls and single lily. The spine is banded with similar floral decoration in gold , and with title within a banded box and the rear board is plain. All edges gilt, cream end papers, red silk ribbon marker intact, tissue-guarded frontispiece etching of young man in bucolic landscape. Title page and all others ruled in red. 550 pp. The same publisher had an illustrated edition circa 1885; this may be a roughly contemporary, or later, edition having just the one frontispiece plate. CONDITION: Very Good. A bit of rubbing to front board title and lightly at head of spine. An area of bubbling to rear board. Hinges and joints in order. Moderately age toned. Two small pen marks seen. ** Eighteenth-century Enlightenment poet, satirist and translator, ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) was, along with Dryden, Swift, Johnson and John Gay, considered one of the Augustan poets. They took their verse forms and stylings from the classical Roman poets such as Horace, Ovid and Livy. Pope's "The Rape of the Lock," included here, thus features sylphs, mortals, gnomes and a panoply of Greek gods and their underlings in a "mock-heroic" tale about a young woman, Belinda, from whom a lock of hair is stolen by a fetishizing admirer, the Baron. Also includes Pope's famous "Essay on Criticism," and the "Essay on Man." William Warburton was the earliest critic and annotator to the poet, also Bishop of Gloucester, and became Pope's literary executor, publishing the first annotated collected works in 1715. (AMJ)
Ref: POEMEW 9793
$55.00