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The Dunciad, variorum : With the prolegomena of Scriblerus.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR3626 .A1 1729g
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Verse satire, English.
- Literature publishing--Poetry.
- Literature publishing.
- Authorship--Poetry.
- Authorship.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Elias, Archibald C. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 192, 185-105, that is, 205 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- [Dublin] : London printed and re-printed, for the Booksellers of Dublin, 1729.
- Notes:
- Anonymous. By Alexander Pope.
- A reissue of the 1729 London edition printed by John Wright for A. Dod, with a letterpress titlepage in addition to the engraved one.
- Signatures: 2 leaves unsigned, A¹² C-Q⁸/⁴ R⁸ S⁴ ( -S4, blank?).
- Numbers 185-192 repeated in the paging; p. 205 incorrectly numbered 105.
- Engraved t.p., with vignette, tail pieces..
- Cf. Griffith, R.H. Alexander Pope, a bibliography, v.1, pt. 1, p. 173.
- "A letter to the publisher" (p.6-17) signed "William Cleland" is by Pope himself.
- Cited in:
- Foxon, P784
- Griffith, 222
- ESTC T5551
- OCLC:
- 54321935
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