POPE, ALEXANDER.--An Essay on Man. By Alexander Pope, Esq. A new edition. To which is prefixed a critical essay, By J. Aikin, M. D. London: printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, . . . 1796. _Foolscap 8vo, half orange levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges._
Four plates by Parker, Cromek, and Neagle after Stothard.
POPE, ALEXANDER.--(I.) Of the Use of Riches, an Epistle To the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst. [one of Pope's Executors] By Mr. Pope. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1732. Price 1s.
(II.) The First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, Imitated in a Dialogue between Alexander Pope of Twickenham in Com. Midd. Esq; on the one Part, and his Learned Council on the other. [Line from Horace] London: Printed by L.[awton] G.[illiver] and sold by A. Dodd, near Temple-Bar; E. Nutt, at the Royal Exchange; and by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. M.DCC.XXXIII.
(III.) An Epistle [Of the Knowledge and Character of Men] to the Right Honourable Richard [Temple] Lord Visc^{ t}. Cobham. By Mr. Pope. [Six lines from Horace, Sat. 10. Lib. 1.] London: Printed for Lawton Gilliver, at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, 1733. [Price one Shilling.]
(IV.) An Epistle from Mr. Pope to Dr. Arbuthnot. [Four lines from Tully.] London: Printed by J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head in Fleetstreet, 1734.
(V.) Of the Characters of Women: an Epistle to a Lady. By Mr. Pope. London: Printed by J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, M DCCXXXV. (Price One Shilling.)
(VI.) The Second Epistle of the Second Book of Horace, imitated by Mr. Pope. Ludentis speciem dabit & torquebitur----London: Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head, in Pall-Mall. M. DCC. XXXVII. (Price One Shilling.) _Folio, six works in one volume, brown levant morocco, gilt back, gilt edges, by Chambolle-Duru._
First editions. The Epistle to Lord Cobham, Of the Knowledge and Character of Men, Of the Characters of Women, and Of the Use of Riches are the first three of the four Moral Essays written in the form of Epistles.
In this edition of the Characters of Women, Philomedé (Henrietta, Duchess of Marlborough in her own right), Atossa (her mother the Duchess Sarah), and Chloe (Lady Suffolk) do not appear. The Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot is the Prologue to the Satires.