Lot 75: POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). [Works]. London: for

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)