Lot 46: [POPE, Alexander (1688-1744), and others.

[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.