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373 POPE (Alexander) AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

Si quid novisti rectius istis,

Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum.-HORAT.

London, printed by W. Lewis in Russell Street, Covent Garden; and sold by W. Taylor, at
the Ship in Paternoster Row, etc., 1711. FIRST EDITION, 4to, a good copy in old half
calf, £2 108

This was Pope's FIRST PUBLICATION IN BOOK-FORM, and was issued anonymously, having been
written before the author was twenty years old. Of the Poem, Addison says in the Spectator, No.
253, "It is a masterpiece of its kind;" and Dr. Johnson tells us in his Life of Pope, "One of his
greatest, though of his earliest works is the Essay on Criticism,' which, if he had written nothing
else, would have placed him among the first critics and the first poets, as it exhibits every mode of
excellence that can embellish or dignify didactic composition, selection of matter, novelty of
arrangement, justness of precept, splendour of illustration, and propriety of digression.

586 POPE (Alexander) AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

Si quid novisti rectius istis,

Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum.-HORAT: London, printed by W Lewis in Russell Street, Covent Garden, and sold by W. Taylor at the Ship in Paternoster Row, T. Osborn in Gray's Inn near the Walks, and J. Graves in St. James's Street, 1711. FIRST EDITION, small sto, a few blank margins mended, otherwise a remarkably fine copy in brown morocco extra, taned sides, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT, by RIVIERF & SON, one of the rarest of all Pope's publica ions, and especially in this state, £28 105 Picker hit 1902 This was Pope's FIRST PUBLICATION IN BOOK FORM, and was issued anonymously, having been written before the author was twenty years old. is a masterpiece of its kind "; and Dr. Johnson tells us in his Life of Pope, Of the Poem, Addison says in the Spectator, No. 253. "It though of his earliest works, is the Essay on Criticism' which, if he had written nothing else, would "One of his greatest, have placed him among the first critics and the first poets, as it exhibits every mode of excellence that can embellish or dignify didactic composition, selection of matter, novelty of arrangement, justness of precept, splendour of illustration, and propriety of digression."

in ment why toto 23.6.04 at Sotheby's £to (Jackson)

4867 POPE (Alexander) AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM.

Si quid novisti rectius istis,

Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum.-Horat.

London: Printed by W. Lewis, in Russell Street, Covent Garden, and sold by W. Taylor
at the Ship in Paternoster Row, T. Osborn in Gray's-Inn, near the Walks, and J. Graves in
St. James's Street, 1711. FIRST EDITION, sm. 4to, a few blank margins mended, otherwise
a remarkably fine copy in brown morocco extra, paned sides, top edges gilt, TOTALLY UNCUT
by Riviere & Son, one of the rarest of all Pope's publications, and especially in this state,
£25
4868
Another Copy, 1711. FIRST EDITION, Sm. 4to, a fine copy in green morocco
extra, paned sides, gilt edges, by Riviere & Son, £15 15s

This was Pope's first publication in book form, and was issued anonymously, having been written before the
author was twenty years old. Of the poem Addison says in the Spectator, No. 253: "It is a masterpiece of its
kind"; and Dr. Johnson tells us in his "Life of Pope 'One of his greatest, though of his earliest, works is

the Essay on Criticism,' which, if he had written nothing else, would have placed him among the first critics and the first poets, as it exhibits every mode of excellence that can embellish or dignify didactic composition, selection of matter, novelty of arrangement, justness of precept, splendour of illustration, and propriety of digression."

Dunston B 1469