Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters,; of Books and Men. Collected from the Conversations of Mr. Pope, and Other Eminent Persons of His Time. . . Now First Published from the Original Papers, with Notes, and a Life of the Author. By Samuel Weller Singer.
London: W.H. Carpenter, 1820. First Edition. 4to, frontispiece, xxxix, 501 [1, errata]; contemporary three-quarter red leather and marbled boards. Foxing to frontispiece leaf, with offsetting to facing pages, including title; armorial bookplate, with small later ownership stamp above it; offsetting to endsheets from binding; tips heavily bumped; edges and hinges rubbed, but binding is sound and fully intact. Item #206258
A contemporary and friend of Pope, Spence was a respected schoalr. His best known work is this posthumously published collection literary anecdotes that informed much subsequent scholarship on eighteenth-century literature.
Price: $500.00
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