By Alexander Pope
London   William Pickering
7" by 4.5" [6], (clxiii), 168; (viii), 311; (vii), 363pp.
An uncommon set of poetical anthologies from 18th-century English poet, Alexander Pope.
By Alexander Pope

1835 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope In Three Volumes

London   William Pickering
7" by 4.5" [6], (clxiii), 168; (viii), 311; (vii), 363pp.
An uncommon set of poetical anthologies from 18th-century English poet, Alexander Pope.
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The Aldine edition of the British Poets. Adorned with a beautifully engraved frontispiece of Pope to volume one. Collated complete. With a detailed Memoir to the start of volume one. Containing An Essay on Criticism, which was first published anonymously on 15 May 1711. Pope began writing the poem early in his career and took about three years to finish it. At the time the poem was published, the heroic couplet style in which it was written was a moderately new genre of poetry, and Pope's most ambitious work. An Essay on Criticism was an attempt to identify and refine his own positions as a poet and critic. The poem was said to be a response to an ongoing debate on the question of whether poetry should be natural, or written according to predetermined artificial rules inherited from the classical past. Complete in three volumes.

Condition

All volumes are rebacked in cloth bindings with paper spine labels, and the original boards. Externally, all volumes are lightly rubbed with some bumping, as well as wear to the extremities. Minor damp staining to the front boards. Repairs to the hinges. Internally, all volumes are firmly bound and bright, although with the occasional spot, as well as some offsetting to the title page of volume one. Neat ink signature to all front free endpapers, as well as the previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume.

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