Pope's Own Miscellany
Being a reprint of Poems on Several Occasions 1717 containing new poems by Alexander Pope and others
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1935
First edition. Quarto (overall 25.1 x 16.2 cm, 9-7/8 x 6-3/8 in.). No.
286 of 750 numbered copies, designed by Francis Meynell and printed on fine
Van Gelder laid paper with the Nonesuch watermark by John Johnson, Printer
to the University, at the University Press, Oxford. Green buckram with gilt
title and decoration on spine and gilt chain blocking on margins of covers,
top edges trimmed and gilt, others uncut; original pale green Ingres paper
dustjacket with gilt spine matching the book. Collates [2 ll.], 1 l. (half-title),
1 l. (title), pp. [v]-xcvii (preface, contents, introduction), [1 p.], 1
l. (fly-title), pp. [3]-165, [1 p.], 1 l. (colophon), [1 l.]. Fine, with
negligible, barely perceptible offsetting and foxing on the free endpapers,
in a very good dustjacket, chipped with short tears at top of spine and
a small chip at bottom, protected in a clear Brodart plastic cover. This
volume is the first reprint of the anonymous and now excessively rare Poems
on Several Occasions, issued by Bernard Lintot in 1717 less than six
weeks after Lintot had published the first collected edition of the works
of Alexander Pope. In his long scholarly introduction Ault lays out the
case for attributing the anonymous compilation and thirty-nine of its unsigned
pieces to Pope himself, including twenty-two here identified and reprinted
for the first time, among them a poetical preface “To Belinda on the
Rape of the Lock.” The miscellany also includes eight pieces, seven
here reprinted for the first time, by Anne Finch, Lady Winchelsea, appreciated
by Wordsworth for her “nature-poetry,” and first reprintings
of a number of pieces, otherwise unknown or in unpublished early variants,
by Buckingham, Garth, Gay, Rowe and Wycherley. Dreyfus 100.
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