Alexander (1688) Pope Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Alexander (1688) Pope Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 26, 2024
F. ROSMAESLER (19th) after ROUBILIAC (*1702), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Etching
Est: €60 - €100
F. H. W. Rosmaesler (19th century) after Louis François Roubiliac (1702 Lyon - 1705 London): Portrait of the English poet and Enlightenment philosopher Alexander Pope (1688 London - 1744 Twickenham), 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed "Roubilliacs del." and "F. Rosmäsler jun. sc Leipzig" in the printing plate below the depiction. Inscribed below with the sitter's name "Alexander Pope" and "in Zwickau b. d. Geb. Schumann". Date: 19th century Description: Half-length portrait of the famous scholar and writer of classicism. Person: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744 ) Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Portraits, Germany, Size: Paper: 25,7 cm x 19,3 cm (10,1 x 7,6 in), Plate: 18,4 cm x 11,8 cm (7,2 x 4,6 in), Depiction: 8,3 cm x 6,5 cm (3,3 x 2,6 in)
Fichter Kunsthandel
Feb. 24, 2024
F. ROSMAESLER (19th) after ROUBILIAC (*1702), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Etching
Est: €60 - €100
F. H. W. Rosmaesler (19th century) after Louis François Roubiliac (1702 Lyon - 1705 London): Portrait of the English poet and Enlightenment philosopher Alexander Pope (1688 London - 1744 Twickenham), 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed "Roubilliacs del." and "F. Rosmäsler jun. sc Leipzig" in the printing plate below the depiction. Inscribed below with the sitter's name "Alexander Pope" and "in Zwickau b. d. Geb. Schumann". Date: 19th century Description: Half-length portrait of the famous scholar and writer of classicism. Person: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744 ) Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Portraits, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Dec. 15, 2023
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Autograph letter signed (‘A. Pope’) to ‘Mr [Joh
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Autograph letter signed (‘A. Pope’) to ‘Mr [John]...
Christie's
Dec. 15, 2023
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Autograph letter signed (‘A Pope’) to George Ly
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Autograph letter signed (‘A Pope’) to George Lyttelton, secretary...
Christie's
Dec. 15, 2023
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Ten autograph letters, of which six signed (‘A.
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Ten autograph letters, of which six signed (‘A. Pope’, 'A.P.'), to...
Christie's
Dec. 15, 2023
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Seven autograph letters, six signed (‘A. Pope’)
Est: £15,000 - £25,000
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Seven autograph letters, six signed (‘A. Pope’), to his lawyer and...
Christie's
Dec. 15, 2023
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Ten autograph letters, of which seven signed (‘
Est: £20,000 - £30,000
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Ten autograph letters, of which seven signed (‘A. Pope’), to Judith...
Christie's
Oct. 14, 2023
F. ROSMAESLER (19th) after ROUBILIAC (*1702), Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Etching
Est: €60 - €100
F. H. W. Rosmaesler (19th century) after Louis François Roubiliac (1702 Lyon - 1705 London): Alexander Pope (1688-1744), 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed "Roubilliacs del." and "F. Rosmäsler jun. sc Leipzig" in the printing plate below the image. Below inscribed with the sitter's name "Alexander Pope" and "in Zwickau b. d. Geb. Schumann". Date: 19th century Description: Half-length portrait of the famous scholar and writer of classicism. Person: Alexander Pope (1688 - 1744 ) Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Portraits, Germany,
Fichter Kunsthandel
Aug. 16, 2023
A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE BUST OF THE POET ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)
Est: £80 - £120
A STAFFORDSHIRE PEARLWARE BUST OF THE POET ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744)CIRCA 1820Painted with coloured enamels and titled verso, 25cm high
Dreweatts 1759 Fine Sales
Apr. 25, 2022
POPE, Alexander, translator (1688-1744). The Iliad of Homer. London: W. Bo
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
POPE, Alexander, translator (1688-1744). The Iliad of Homer. London: W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott, 1715-20. The first edition of Pope’s Iliad. Pope labored over his translation of Homer’s Greek epic…
Christie's
Nov. 20, 2021
F.ROSMAESLER (19th) after ROUBILIAC (*1702), Portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), Etching
Est: €30 - €50
F. H. W. Rosmaesler (19th century) after Louis François Roubiliac (1702 Lyon - 1705 London), Portrait of Alexander Pope (1688-1744), 19th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed "Roubilliacs del." and "F. Rosmäsler jun. sc Leipzig" in the printing plate below the image. Below inscribed with the sitter's name "Alexander Pope" and "in Zwickau b. d. Geb. Schumann". Date: 19th century Description: Half-length portrait of the famous scholar and writer of classicism. Person: Alexander Pope (1688 -1744 ) Keywords: 19th century, Romanticism, Portraits, Germany, Size: 25,7 cm x 19,3 cm, Plate: 18,4 cm x 11,8 cm, Depiction: 8,3 cm x 6,5 cm Condition: Very good Condition. The sheet shows discolourations along the margins due to its age. The upper edge of the sheet is untrimmed and slightly creased in places. The image makes a very good impression.
Fichter Kunsthandel
Nov. 19, 2021
WOODBURY SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER CO., NEW JERSEY QUAKER PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
WOODBURY SCHOOL, GLOUCESTER CO., NEW JERSEY QUAKER PICTORIAL NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER, silk on linen, top half featuring a four-line verse from "The Universal Prayer" by Alexander Pope (British, 1688-1744) framed by a foliate wreath, outer corners with four initials of "SW", "SW", "MAW", and "LW", signed below "Mary Ann Webster / Woodbury School 1813", surrounded by floral motifs, lower fourth having a pictorial depiction of a brick house sitting on a hill next to two trees, grassy field below with flowers and baskets of flowers, three sides with scrolling flowering-vine borders. Housed under glass in a modern wood frame.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Dec. 02, 2020
POPE ALEXANDER: (1688-1744)
Est: €300 - €400
POPE ALEXANDER: (1688-1744) English Poet, known for his satirical verse and use of the heroic couplet. Pope is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after William Shakespeare. Fine, dark ink signature ('A. Pope') to the verso of a manuscript document signed ('J: Caryll') by John Caryll, one page, slim oblong 12mo, n.p., 2nd September 1717. Caryll's document is addressed to the goldsmith [Richard] Wright of Convent Garden and states, in full, 'Pray pay unto Mr. Alexander Pope or order the sum of thirty three shilings on acct of yr friend'. Signed by Pope to the verso as an acknowledgement of having received the funds. With a partial integral address leaf. Rare. Some light overall age toning and wear, otherwise VG John Caryll (1667-1736) The Younger. Second Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford and friend of Alexander Pope. Richard Wright conducted the business of Wrights & Co. between 1708-29, the private bank having been established as the goldsmithing business of William Wright in 1699, based in Covent Garden, London. Pope published several works in the same year as signing the present document, including Eloisa to Abelard, Three Hours After Marriage and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. It was also the year in which his father, a linen merchant in London, died.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Jan. 10, 2019
Literature, mainly 18th century. LEE (Nat.) Caesar Borgia Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth A Tragedy. 1680, small 4to, rather soil...
Est: £150 - £250
Literature, mainly 18th century. LEE (Nat.) Caesar Borgia Son of Pope Alexander the Sixth A Tragedy. 1680, small 4to, rather soiled, title lower corner torn away, modern boards; COWLEY (A) The Third Part of the Works, 1689, 4to, staining, modern half polished calf; others - classics - leather bindings (condition varies)
Cheffins
Nov. 22, 2018
POPE ALEXANDER: (1688-1744)
Est: €340 - €460
POPE ALEXANDER: (1688-1744) English Poet, known for his satirical verse and use of the heroic couplet. Pope is the second most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations after William Shakespeare. Fine, dark ink signature ('A. Pope') to the verso of a manuscript document signed ('J: Caryll') by John Caryll, one page, slim oblong 12mo, n.p., 2nd September 1717. Caryll's document is addressed to the goldsmith [Richard] Wright of Convent Garden and states, in full, 'Pray pay unto Mr. Alexander Pope or order the sum of thirty three shilings on acct of yr friend'. Signed by Pope to the verso as an acknowledgement of having received the funds. With a partial integral address leaf. Rare. Some light overall age toning and wear, otherwise VG £300-400 John Caryll (1667-1736) The Younger. Second Jacobite Baron Caryll of Durford and friend of Alexander Pope. Richard Wright conducted the business of Wrights & Co. between 1708-29, the private bank having been established as the goldsmithing business of William Wright in 1699, based in Covent Garden, London. Pope published several works in the same year as signing the present document, including Eloisa to Abelard, Three Hours After Marriage and Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. It was also the year in which his father, a linen merchant in London, died.
International Autograph Auctions Europe, S.L.
Sep. 27, 2017
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. London: Millar, 1766. 4to. 9 vols. Frontispieces and engraved plates by Charles Grignion (1717 _ 1810), after Francis Hayman (1708 _ 1776). (Light age yellowing, occasional spotting and staining). 18th century speckled sheepskin, title lettered on gilt tooled spines, with raised bands, all fore-edges sprinkled red. (Slightly stained and rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Prov: Wolferstan (bookplate); early ownership inscriptions on title pages. (9)
Est: £100 - £150
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Works of Alexander Pope Esq. London: Millar, 1766. 4to. 9 vols. Frontispieces and engraved plates by Charles Grignion (1717 _ 1810), after Francis Hayman (1708 _ 1776). (Light age yellowing, occasional spotting and staining). 18th century speckled sheepskin, title lettered on gilt tooled spines, with raised bands, all fore-edges sprinkled red. (Slightly stained and rubbed). FIRST EDITION. Prov: Wolferstan (bookplate); early ownership inscriptions on title pages. (9)
Chiswick Auctions
Mar. 13, 2016
Pope, Dog, Pencil Sketch
Est: $300 - $500
Alexander Pope (English, 16881744), sketch of a dog, pencil, signed on mat, unframed, 6" h x 5" w (view), 9 1/4" h x 8" (mat).
Kaminski Auctions
Mar. 03, 2013
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait
Est: €400 - €600
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait of a Naval Officer Pastel, oval, 18 x 13.5cm
Adam's
Mar. 03, 2013
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait
Est: €400 - €600
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait of a Naval Officer Pastel, oval, 18 x 13.5cm
Adam's
Nov. 20, 2012
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Works. London: A.
Est: £70 - £100
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Works. London: A. Millar (and others), 1757. 9 volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, titles printed in red and black, 23 plates (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary polished calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed, some scuffing to boards). Provenance: "Henrietta Henckell, Given by Thomas Browne, Esq; September, 1759" (label); later signatures on front free endpapers. (9)
Chiswick Auctions
Nov. 18, 2012
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait of a Naval Officer Pastel, oval, 18 x 13.5cm
Adam's
Nov. 18, 2012
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait
Est: €1,000 - €1,500
ATTRIBUTED TO ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744) Portrait of a Naval Officer Pastel, oval, 18 x 13.5cm
Adam's
Sep. 04, 2012
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Works ... With
Est: £200 - £300
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Works ... With His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements; As they were delivered to the Editor, a little before his Death. Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton. London: A. Millar (and others), 1757. 9 volumes, 8vo. Engraved frontispiece, titles printed in red and black, 23 plates (some very light mainly marginal spotting and staining). Contemporary polished calf gilt, spines gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed, some scuffing to boards). Provenance: "Henrietta Henckell, Given by Thomas Browne, Esq; September, 1759" (label); H. L. Gurney, [19]17 (signatures on front free endpapers). (9)
Chiswick Auctions
Sep. 04, 2012
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). [Works]. London: for
Est: £400 - £600
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). [Works]. London: for J. Whiston, 1771. 9 volumes, 8vo (170 x 102mm). Engraved frontispiece and plates (some light browning and spotting). Contemporary speckled calf , spines gilt with red and green morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed, joints splitting). Provenance: Patrick Orr (old signature on title). With 16 other works in 43 volumes including Lady Rachel Russell's Letters ... from the Manuscript in the Library at Woburn Abbey (London, 1773), Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (London, 1863, 2 vols., 4to) and William Hazlitt's The Miscellaneous Works (London, 1887, 3 vols.), almost all bound in calf. (52)
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 12, 2012
[POPE, Alexander (1688-1744), and others.
Est: £200 - £300
[POPE, Alexander (1688-1744), and others. Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. By Several Hands. London: Printed for Bernard Lintott, 1712. 8vo. Half title, engraved frontispiece by E. Kirkall (occasional mainly marginal spotting and staining, without the advertisements at the end). Modern panelled calf, spine gilt. Provenance: Anna Hall (old signature at end); various later signatures and inscriptions on front free endpaper. FIRST EDITION. Case 260; Griffith 6; Macdonald 59; Rothschild 1565. Contains, in its shorter two canto form, the FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT OF POPE'S "RAPE OF THE LOCK", in addition to the first publication of six other poems by Pope and two epitaphs by Dryden.
Chiswick Auctions
Nov. 15, 2011
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem. In five canto's. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714.
Est: $600 - $800
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem. In five canto's. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714. 8υo (190 x 114 mm). Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 5 plates by C. du Bosc after Lud. du Guernier. Engraved headpiece, opening initial and tail-piece. (A few leaves or plates possibly supplied.) [Bound with:] [POPE, Alexander]. A Key to the Lock by Esdras Barnivelt. London: J. Roberts, 1715. 8υo (190 x 114 mm). Together 2 works in one volume. Modern quarter red morocco, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance: C. Hyett (contemporary inscription on title to the Rape); Abel E. Berland (bookplate, purchased on 11 February 1969). FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF POPE'S MOCK EPIC, AND FIRST EDITION IN FIVE CANTOS, enlarged from 334 to 794 lines, and published in late January 1714. In his dedication to Arabella Fermor, Pope makes the archetypal disclaimer: "The Human Persons are as Fictitious as the Airy ones; and the Character of Belinda, as it is now manag'd, resembles You in nothing but in Beauty." No mention is made of Lord Petre who had died of small-pox on 22 March, 1712-13. Lintott paid Pope 15 for additions, and according to the poet's own correspondence 3000 copies were sold in four days. Speaking before the fourth edition, Pope put sales at "above 6000," and the work established his fame throughout Europe. Second edition of the Key, proving "the dangerous tendency" of the poem, and earning the poet a further 10-15-0 from Lintot. Foxon P941; Griffith 29 and 38.
Christie's
Sep. 13, 2011
Books: POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). An Epistle to
Est: £150 - £200
Books: POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Lord Visct. Cobham [half title:] Of the Knowledge and Characters of Men: To Richard Lord Cobham. London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, 1733. Folio (365 x 230mm). Half title, one-page of advertisements at the end (occasional light spotting, some minor marginal worming). Modern cloth-backed boards. Provenance: Frank J. Hogan (ex-libris sticker). E. Palmer (early signature on half title). FIRST EDITION. Foxon P920; Griffith 329; Rothschild 1611. With the same author's The New Dunciad: As it was Found In the Year 1741 (London, 1742, modern half calf, FIRST EDITION). (2)
Chiswick Auctions
Jun. 23, 2011
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem. In five canto's. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock: An heroi-comical poem. In five canto's. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714. 8υo (190 x 114 mm). Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece and 5 plates by C. du Bosc after Lud. du Guernier. Engraved headpiece, opening initial and tail-piece. (A few leaves or plates possibly supplied.) [Bound with:] [POPE, Alexander]. A Key to the Lock by Esdras Barnivelt. London: J. Roberts, 1715. 8υo (190 x 114 mm). Together 2 works in one volume. Modern quarter red morocco, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Provenance: C. Hyett (contemporary inscription on title to the Rape); purchased on 11 February 1969. FIRST SEPARATE EDITION OF POPE'S MOCK EPIC, AND FIRST EDITION IN FIVE CANTOS, enlarged from 334 to 794 lines, and published in late January 1714. In his dedication to Arabella Fermor, Pope makes the archetypal disclaimer: "The Human Persons are as Fictitious as the Airy ones; and the Character of Belinda, as it is now manag'd, resembles You in nothing but in Beauty." No mention is made of Lord Petre who had died of small-pox on 22 March, 1712-13. Lintott paid Pope 15 for additions, and according to the poet's own correspondence 3000 copies were sold in four days. Speaking before the fourth edition, Pope put sales at "above 6000," and the work established his fame throughout Europe. Second edition of the Key, proving "the dangerous tendency" of the poem, and earning the poet a further 10-15-0 from Lintot. Foxon P941; Griffith 29 and 38.
Christie's
Mar. 29, 2011
POPE, ALEXANDER (1688-1744, poet)
Est: £800 - £1,200
PORTRAIT AFTER LOUIS FRANÇOIS ROUBILIAC (?1705-1762), bronze medallion plaque, oval, uniface, head and shoulders, profile facing left, deep brown patination, tiny holes for attachment at head and foot,3½ x 3 inches (9 x 7.5 cm), [eighteenth century]
Bonhams
Nov. 15, 2009
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1785...
Est: $150 - $250
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744), The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq, Glasgow: Andrew Foulis, 1785, three volumes, three-quarter calf, folio, (bumped, chipped, edge wear, minor scattered spotting, 20th century bookplate).
Skinner
Nov. 18, 2007
(Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744), An Essay on Man, Being the First Book of Ethic Epistles, London and Du...
Est: $50 - $75
(Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744), An Essay on Man, Being the First Book of Ethic Epistles, London and Dublin: George Faulkner, 1734, second edition, old vellum, 8vo. (spotting and wear to binding, flyleaf lacking, minor marginal spotting and staining, some inscriptions to pastedown)
Skinner
Feb. 21, 2006
English School (early 18th Century)
Est: -
Alexander Pope (1688-1744), the poet, wearing brown robes and turban oil, gilt-metal frame, the reverse glazed to reveal mat of plaited hair on blue silk Oval, 38mm. (1 1/2ins.) high
Bonhams
Oct. 03, 2005
POPE, ALEXANDER (1688-1744, poet)
Est: -
PORTRAIT, AFTER WILLIAM HOARE R.A. OF BATH (1707?-1792), 18TH CENTURY, oil on canvas, half-length, wearing a dark green coat and cap, 29 x 24 in (73.3 x 61 cm).
Bonhams
Jun. 02, 2005
[BEARDSLEY] -- POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem in
Est: €1,200 - €1,800
[BEARDSLEY] -- POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos. Embroidered with Nine Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. Londres: Leonhard Smithers, 1896. In-4 (260 x 195 mm). Frontispice, 6 planches hors texte et 2 vignettes d'Aubrey Beardsley. (Rares rousseurs.) Percaline turquoise de l'éditeur, plat supérieur orné d'une large plaque dorée, dos lisse avec titre or, (très légèrement frottée, trace d'ex-libris enlevé). Provenance: Gurner ? (envoi autographe de Beardsley sur la garde) -- Fritz Wärndorfer (grand ex-libris de style Art nouveau lithographié). EDITION ORIGINALE, UN DES 500 EXEMPLAIRES DE LUXE DANS SA RELIURE D'ORIGINE EN PERCALINE TURQUOISE. EXEMPLAIRE DE CHOIX, LES ENVOIS DE BEARDSLEY SONT DE TOUTE RARETÉ.
Christie's
Dec. 16, 2004
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Autograph letter signed ("A: Pope") to John Caryll, Jr., n.p., 8
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Autograph letter signed ("A: Pope") to John Caryll, Jr., n.p., 8 November 1712. 3 pages, 4to, address panel in Pope's hand on p.4, central fold neatly strengthed, noted "Answered" at top of p.1, minor soiling and spotting. With two letters from John Murray relating to this letter and to Pope. "I WRITE IN SOME HEAT" -- AN IMPORTANT LETTER, COMMENTING ON HIS INSPIRATION FOR THE 'RAPE OF THE LOCK' A lengthy letter from Pope to the son of his close friend, John Caryll (ca 1666-1736). Pope writes that a passage in Caryll's last letter is "the kindest I ever received...." Pope commends Caryll and but comments: "Our nominal, unperforming friends! As for my own pt, whom have I been ever able to oblige? Whom have I ever serv'd to that degree? By what Right of Merit can I pretend to expect a signal service from any man? I am serious by far from imagining that because people have twice or thrice been civill to me, they are bound always to serve me; the prior obligation was mine, not theirs. Or (if they like my Poetry) that because they laugh with me, they will therefore cry for me-- But I must be content to take my fortune, will all my own sins upon my own head..." Pope then alludes to the controversy over the incident described in the "Rape of the Lock" (first published the same year, in the 'Miscellanies' published by Lintot). The young Lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair of Miss Arabella Fermor, a beauty of the day, who was offended. Both were known to Pope, and the poem was written at the suggestion of their common friend, John Caryll, in order to palliate the quarrel with a little humor. In Pope's poem, Lord Petre is represented by the baron, "Sir Plume" is Sir George Brown and Thalestris his sister, Miss Fermor. The incident is referred to explicitly by Pope: "Sir Plume blusters (I hear) nay the celebrated Lady Herself is offended, which is stranger, not at herself but me: Mr. W (they say) is gloomy upon the matter, the Tyrant meditates revenge, nay the Distressed Dame herself has been taught to suspect I serv'd her but by halves, & without Prudence. Is not this enough to make a man for the future neither presume to blame disjustice, or pity innocence, as in Mr. W's wife, to make a writer never be tender of another's character or Fame as in Belinda's, to act with more Reserve and write with less?..." "I can be satisfied in my conscience of having acted with honour, & (as to the last) I dare stand to posterity in the character of an un-bigotted Roman Catholic & Impartial Critick; I dare trust future times, & lye down contented under the Impotence of my present censurers, which like other impotence, would naturally vex & sieze one more, the less it can do. As for my writings, I pray God they may never have other enemies than those they have yet met with, which are first Priests, secondly Women (who are the fools of Priests) & thirdly Beaus & Fopps (who are the fools of Women). You see, I write in some heat; but I would not do so if I had not a great idea of the friendship of him to whom I write. This Frankness, the less discreet it is, is the more an Act of Trust in me to you, my mind is really a little sower'd by all this, & yet more by a piece of sad news Mr. Southcote yesterday sent me, that the Rascally Scribbler of the Flying Post has maliciously reflected upon Mr. Caryll, on account of his crossing the Seas at this time." He pledges his support for Caryll's father: "A am on fire to snatch the first opportunity I ever had of doing something (at least endeavoring to do something) for your Father & my Friend. I hope he is not now to be told with what Ardour I love & with what Esteem I honour him; any more than you how sincerely and affectionately I shall ever be." A postcript states that "the Verses you inquire about were never written upon you any where else than in the letter I sent you." Pope first met John Caryll, the elder, at the Englefields of Whiteknights. Caryll's suggestion of "The Rape of the Lock is acknowledged in the opening of the poem: 'This verse to Caryll, Muse, is due. The hero of the piece was his cousin and neighbour, Lord Petre.' The correspondence between Pope and Caryll covers the period from 1710 to 1735. Some of Pope's letters are addressed to Caryll's son (as here), who married Lady Mary Mackenzie, daughter of Lord Seaforth, and died young in 1718. The present letter provides important background for the writing of one of Pope's most celebrated poems, and provides insight into his inspiration behind it.
Christie's
Mar. 03, 2004
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) -- BIBLE, in Greek. Novum Testamentum, in Greek. Cambridge:
Est: £2,000 - £3,000
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) -- BIBLE, in Greek. Novum Testamentum, in Greek. Cambridge: Thomas Buck, 1632. 8° (181 x 114mm). 'Engraved' title and first leaf of text in expert facsimile in red-brown ink, the title signed J. Thomason, supplied probably at the time of binding and ?presentation, additional engraved title (unsigned, printed possibly later?) loosely inserted. Early 18th-century red morocco gilt, central scroll lozenge and border composed of small tools, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (hinges very lightly worn); modern red morocco-backed solander box. Provenance: Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (presented in 1728 to:) -- Alexander Pope (inscription on front free endpaper in Pope's hand: 'V.I. Henrici St. John, Vice-Com s. de Bolingbroke, Donum Alexandro Pope, 1728') -- Richard Heber (1773-1833, stamp; sale Sotheby's, 5 May 1834, lot 5836, £5.7.6, the supplied leaves described) -- Fitzjames Watt (stamp) -- Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Durdans house stamp, bookplate, Durdans library sale, Sotheby's 27 June 1933, lot 347A, £25 to Scheuer) -- purchased from James F. Drake, New York. POPE'S COPY of the first Cambridge printing of the New Testament in Greek, given to him by Viscount Bolingbroke in the year The Beggar's Opera was staged and the Dunciad first published. An ousted Tory minister in 1714, Bolingbroke fled to France and briefly acted as Secretary of State to the Pretender, but receiving the royal pardon in 1723, he resettled in England in 1725, purchasing Dawley Manor, near Uxbridge in Middlesex, which he re-named Dawley Farm. 'Frequent visits between Twickenham and Dawley (the two 'villas' were only four miles apart) whetted Pope's interest in philosophic studies of the sort his friend had undertaken in France and was now continuing at his English farm' (Mack, Alexander Pope, p. 511), eventually leading to the composition of the Essay on Man (1730-32; published 1733-34). So in thrall was he with his noble friend that Pope commissioned a portrait of Bolingbroke to be painted by Jonathan Richardson. The present volume is no. 20 in Mack's list of Pope's books (Collected in Himself, appendix A), known to Mack only through the 1933 sale catalogue, and is unusual in being dated. It is also an unexpected gift from a declared deist. This edition of the Greek New Testament was printed with Sir Henry Savile's 'silver type', borrowed from Oxford. STC 2796; D&M 4678.
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Mar. 03, 2004
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) -- HOMER. The Iliads and Odysses, translated by Thomas Hobbes
Est: £2,500 - £3,500
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) -- HOMER. The Iliads and Odysses, translated by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). London: Will. Crook, 1686. 12° (151 x 181mm). Engraved frontispiece. (Frontispiece window-mounted, Odyssey bound before the Iliad with contents leaves between, some headlines cropped with slight loss, K2 of Odyssey with small marginal repair, B11 of Iliad soiled at margin, D9 with paper fault, K7r weakly impressed.) Late 19th-century brown morocco, gilt edges, solander case. Provenance: Alexander Pope (ownership inscription, 'A. Pope ejus Liber,' on front blank and brief occasional notes to the Iliad in his hand -- James Cowan (bookplate) -- John Gribbel (bookplate), sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 8 May 1945, lot 437, for $95 (£23 15s). Exhibited: Grolier Club (1950s exhibition label loosely inserted). ALEXANDER POPE'S COPY OF THE THIRD EDITION, WITH HIS PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED NOTES. Pope read Ogilby's translation of Homer in folio at the age of about eight. In Collected in Himself, Appendix A, Mack lists 7 surviving editions from his library, including George Chapman's translation in a 1611 folio, and the present verse translation by Hobbes in which Pope, who 'was anything but a prolific annotator while reading,' has made short notes to the Iliad on pp. 71-72, 75, 193, 246, 249-50, 252-53, 272, 310, 313, 326 and 338. He marks where the story of Sarpedon begins and ends, writes the comment 'Desinent Omnia' against the line 'Leaving his Limbs, his Soul bewailing flew' (p. 338), and makes orthographical corrections; some notes are severely cropped by the binder. There is also scoring to lines of the Odyssey (pp. 37, 48) and on some dozen pages of the Iliad. That Pope made special note of the beginning and end of the Sarpedon story may help date his ownership of this copy since the first fragement of his own translation of Homer was 'The Episode of Sarpedon, translated from the Twelfth and Sixteenth Books of Homer's Iliads,' published in Jacob Tonson's Poetical Miscellanies, Sixth Part on 2 May, 1709, when he was still under twenty-one. Macdonald and Hargreaves 81; Mack 86, known only through the Gribbel sale catalogue; Wing H-2552.
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Mar. 03, 2004
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) and Jonathan SWIFT (1667-1745) -- [CROTUS RUBIANUS, Joannes (ca.
Est: £3,000 - £5,000
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) and Jonathan SWIFT (1667-1745) -- [CROTUS RUBIANUS, Joannes (ca. 1480-1539) and others]. Epistolae obscurorum virorum ad Dn. M. Ortuinum Gratium. Nova... editio. Frankfurt: 1643. 12° (125 x 76mm). (Some waterstains, L1 with piece torn from outer margin.) Contemporary calf with red morocco lettering-piece (joints cracked, upper cover almost detached, corners worn, front free endpaper and front blank [with signatures] becoming loose), morocco slipcase by Zaehnsdorf. Provenance: Thomas Monson (recto of front blank inscribed 'Ex libris Tho: Monson') -- Alexander Pope (recto of the same blank inscribed in Pope's hand 'nunc Alex. Pope') -- Jonathan Swift (recto of the same blank inscribed 'nunc Jonath: Swift' though not certainly in Swift's hand; erasure at head of blank and of 1 1/2 lines between the ownership marks of Pope and Swift) -- no. 259 in Swift's 1715 library catalogue -- lot 185 in the Sale Catalogue of Swift's Library, Dublin, 3 February 1746, purchased by: -- Edward Lisle (signed inscription on verso of the same blank: 'See ye Character of this Book in ye 197 Tatler / bought this at Dean Swift's auction') -- Charles B. Foote (bookplate) -- sold Anderson Galleries, New York, 17 February 1919, lot 953, for $575 (£115) -- John Gribbel (bookplate), sold Parke-Bernet, 17 April 1945, lot 302. POPE AND SWIFT'S COPY OF THIS CELEBRATED GERMAN SATIRE, first published in 1515 (expanded in 1516). The work is addressed to O. Gratius, a prominent supporter of J. Pfefferkorn in his attacks on J. Reuchlin. The letters purport to be written by admirers of Gratius and Pfefferkorn, but are intentionally couched in barbarous language, and were in fact composed by Reuchlin's supporter, Crotus Rubeanus, with the aim of making Reuchlin's persecutors appear ridiculous. A second part of the Epistolae was mainly the work of Ulrich von Hutten. The title alludes to the Epistolae clarorum virorum (1514), published by Reuchlin. This copy possesses a UNIQUE DOUBLE ASSOCIATION, linking the names of the two friends who were both such masters of satire in their own time. Lefanu p. 17, not traced after 1919; Mack 61, not traced after the Gribbel sale.
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Mar. 03, 2004
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). An Essay on Criticism. London: printed for W. Lewis, sold by
Est: £3,000 - £4,000
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). An Essay on Criticism. London: printed for W. Lewis, sold by W. Taylor, T. Osborn and J. Graves, 1711. 4° (208 x 150mm). Half-title. (Without the final advertisement leaf.) Blue morocco gilt by B.M. Pickering, gilt edges. Provenance: Frederick Locker-Lampson (1821-1895, bookplate) -- F. Grant (bookplate) -- James B. Clemens, sold 9 January 1945, Parke-Bernet, New York, lot 348, for $350 (£87 10s.). FIRST EDITION OF POPE'S FIRST SEPARATELY-PUBLISHED WORK, containing several of his most celebrated lines, 'A little Learning is a dang'rous Thing' (215), 'To Err is Humane; to Forgive Divine (525) and 'For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread (625). One thousand copies were printed. With POPE'S AUTOGRAPH RECEIPT MADE OUT TO A SUBSCRIBER IN ADVANCE PAYMENT FOR THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE ILIAD. Dated May 18th [1714] on a narrow slip, this reads: 'Receiv'd of Rich d. Potinger Esq. Two Guineas being the first Paym t for Homer's Iliad translated by A. Pope.' The Iliad 'was to be a subscription book, issued one volume per year over six years at a guinea a volume. The initial down payment was set at two guineas to defray the translator's out-of-pocket expense in collecting "the several Editions, Criticks and Commentators, which are very numerous upon this Author"; after which one guinea was due on delivery of each successive volume except the last, which would be free' (M. Mack, Alexander Pope, 1988, p. 266). Foxon P-806; Griffith 2; Hayward 145; Rothschild 1562; Rowfant Catalogue p. 163.
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Mar. 03, 2004
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Autograph manuscript (fair copy) of his early poem entitled 'A
Est: £10,000 - £15,000
POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Autograph manuscript (fair copy) of his early poem entitled 'A Paraphrase on Thomas a Kempis, L[iber] 3, C[apitulum] 2 Done by the Author at 12 years old', n.p., n.d. [1700-1701], written in brown ink, the heading in roman and italic lettering in imitation of printing, the text in a neat cursive hand, 36 lines of verse in six stanzas, 1 1/2 pages, 308 x 190 mm (a few tiny holes in folds, professionally repaired on verso, a few light spots, the leaf tipped on to a mount), and: CARYLL, John (?1666-1736). Autograph draft signed in favour of 'Mr Alex[ander] Pope' for the sum of eleven pounds, 28 February 1720, receipted and signed by Pope ('A. Pope') on verso, one page, 65 x 154 mm; and an autograph note by Sir Charles Dilke; in a brown cloth portfolio. Provenance: John Caryll -- Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789-1864) who discovered Caryll's papers in 1853 and published the poem in The Athenaeum -- Sir Charles Dilke (grandson), who retained the present manuscripts when he presented the remainder of the Caryll Papers to the British Museum in 1 -- purchased from W.H. Robinson, London, 9 December 1938, £80. THE EARLIEST VERSES BY POPE WHICH MAY BE ACCURATELY DATED AND 'ONE OF POPE'S LEAST-KNOWN JUVENILIA, in a devotional mood he is not known otherwise to have pursued' (Maynard Mack, Alexander Pope: A Life, 1983). The paraphrase is based upon De Imitatione Christi, lib.3, cap.2, and expresses the familiar meditative theme that Truth speaks inwardly without the noise of words ('Quod veritas intus loquitur sine strepitu verborum'), opening with the lines 'Speak, Gracious Lord, oh speak: thy Servant hears: For I'm thy servant and I'l[l] still be so'. Although Pope was later prone to exaggerate his precocity, the style of the work and some typically 17th-century rhymes confirm its early date and he is known to have acquired in his boyhood a copy of the work attributed to Thomas à Kempis. In his childhood he learnt to write by imitating printed letters, and read poetry voraciously. The manuscript was discovered by Charles Wentworth Dilke among the papers of John Caryll. The latter, who befriended Pope around 1710, is chiefly remembered as the source of inspiration acknowledged in the opening line of The Rape of the Lock ('This verse to Caryll, Muse, is due'). (The Collected Works, ed. N. Ault and J. Butt, vol.VI, 1954).
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Oct. 08, 2001
[POPE, Alexander (1688-1744) and other contributors]. Miscellaneous Poems and Translations. London: Bernard Lintott, 1712.
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
8 o (188 x 120 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece by E. Kirkall, section title for Rape of the Lock, 4 advertisement leaves at end. (Half-title and frontispiece with slight offset at edges from binding.) Contemporary panelled calf (rebacked preserving original gilt spine). Provenance : purchased from Dawsons, London, 7 June 1967. Exhibited : Grolier Club, 'This powerfull rime,' 1975, no. 32. FIRST EDITION. FIRST PRINTING OF POPE'S RAPE OF THE LOCK which comes as the final piece in the miscellany with a separate title-page and independent run of signatures. John Caryll had suggested to Pope that he write a poem about the incident in which Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair, and the original version of the poem was completed within a fortnight, at some point between 2 August and early October, 1711. The intention was to heal the rift between the two Catholic families, and shortly before publication of the miscellany in May, 1712, advance copies of the Rape were sent as offprints to persons concerned in the story. Although the poem had won general approval in manuscript, the attitude of the Fermors now changed. Lord Petre had married Catherine Warmsley, a Lancashire heiress some seven years younger than Arabella and much richer, two months before. While none of the characters were mentioned by name, charges of indecency were levelled against the poem, and Pope sought to make amends by undertaking to dedicate the second edition to Arabella Fermor herself. At this stage, the poem was only two cantos long and the sylphs guarding Belinda had not been introduced. Case 260 (1a); Griffith 6; Rothschild 1565.
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