Description: [029453] Pope, Alexander. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements. From the Text of Dr. Warburton with the Life of the Author. New York, NY: William Durrell, 1812. American Edition. Complete in five volumes; illustrated with frontispiece engravings, including in Vol. III "...the only Portrait that was ever drawn of Mr. Pope at full length...it was done without his knowledge...Pope would never have forgiven the Painter had he known it... He was too sensible of the deformity of his person..." Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet: "...What marks Pope out from virtually every other classic writer of verse and prose in the eighteenth century...is the extraordinary sequence of different imaginative works which he achieved, almost, as it seems, every five years of his short adult life. Further, a book could easily be written on his small and often non-couplet poems. The rhyming couplet itself, employed in all Pope's major works, is managed with such skill and feeling, that what at a superficial glance looks like relentless uniformity is on a closer and more sensitive reading, infinite variety..." (Howard Erskine-Hill in the ODNB) Front endpapers with the armorial bookplate ex-libris of Boyd; the free endpapers of each volume are carefully inscribed from Elizabeth C(oombs) Adams (1808 - 1903) Quincy April, 1901, the granddaughter of John Adams, second U.S. president; all gifted to Annie F.H. Boyd and with the additional name of A.S. Adams on the top of edge of the first volume's endpaper. Approx. 3 1/2" x 5 1/2" size; bound in full polished calf leather, spines with gilt titles decoration. Some tips wear and rubbing to bindings, in very good condition and with interesting provenance.
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Author: ALEXANDER POPE
Publisher: William Durrell
Topic: Poetry
Subject: Literature & Fiction
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