Lot 156
Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The genuine works in verse and prose, 1732. First edition, 2 volumes; Fielding, Henry. Miscellanies, 1743; Dryden, John. Poems on various occasions and translations from several authors; [bound with] Fables ancient and modern, 1701 & 1700; Gay, John. Two epistles: one, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; the other, to a lady, [c.1717]. First edition, 8vo; [Prior, Matthew] Poems on several occasions, 1718. Folio; Ruffhead, Owen The life of Alexander Pope Esq compiled from original manuscripts; with a critical essay on his writings and genius, 1769. First edition, 8vo; [Idem] Letters of Mr. Pope, and several eminent persons, from the year 1705, to 1711. Volume 1 [2], 1735. 2 volumes in 1; [Idem] Letters of the late Alexander Pope, Esq. to a lady, never before published, 1769; [Idem] An essay on criticism, written by Mr. Pope. The fifth edition. London [i.e. The Hague]: printed for T. Johnson, 1716; Spence, Joseph Anecdotes, observations, and characters. 1820. First edition, 8vo; Walpole, Horace, Earl of Orford Notes on the poems of Alexander Pope…,1876. Second edition, 8vo; Strachey, Lytton Pope. The Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1925. Cambridge, [n.d, 1925]. First edition, 8vo, Mackail, J.W. Pope: the Leslie Stephen Lecture for 1919. Cambridge, 1919. First edition, 8vo; Pope, AlexanderMiscellanies: the second volume, 1727. 8vo; St-John, Henry, Viscount BolingbrokeA letter to Sir William Windham. II…1753. First edition; Fitzosborne, Sir Thomas. The letters on several subjects, 1758. Fifth edition; Burke, Edmund. A letter to a noble lord, on the attacks made upon him and his pension, in the House of Lords…,1796; sold not subject to return
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Bruce Ritchie.