Yorkshire & London: The Scolar Press Ltd., 1973. Reprint. Hardcover. 8vo. 75pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering. Head and tail of spine and corners bumped and rubbed. DJ chipped and rubbed on the head and tail of spine, edges and corners. "An Essay on Man, Being the First Book of..... More
London: Andrew Wilson, 1806. Stereotype edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 118pp. Original calf with gilt border and gold-decorated spine. Raised bands. Some scuffing and staining to boards. Rubbing along,-and to head and tail of spine. Dentelles. Ex libris of "John Berwick" on inside of front board and signature of same on free..... More
London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot between the Temple-Gates, 1717. First edition. Modern calf over mardble boards. Small folio (29.2 by 18.5 cm). Collation: [pi]2 a-g2 [B]2 C-5L2 (lacks leaf Ii1 = 219 leaves). [32], 120, 123-408 pp; with half title and folding engraved frontisportrait of the author..... More
London: Printed for Bernard Lintot, 1725-1726. Hardcover. Small Folio. [6] xxiii, 252, [4] 384, [4] 327, [4] 286, [4]289 [8] [2] 16pp. Original crudely rebacked paneled calf in two shades with blind-stamped ruling and tooling. Title page printed in red and black with engraving by W. Kent. Decorative and historiated..... More
London: Printed by W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott between the Temple-Gates, 1715-1720. First edition, first issue. Hardcover. Large Quarto. Original vellum with decorative gilt-tooled framing on covers, gilt lettering on brown calf labels of spines, plus gilt tooling and ruling; raised bands. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving of bust..... More
London: J. Walker, 1807. Later printing. Hardcover. 24mo. [6], 559, [1]pp. Original gilt-stamped red morocco, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. Dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and title page. A scarce, early edition of Pope's translation of Homer. Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best..... More
Washington D.C. Smithsonian Institute, Freer Gallery of Art, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto (8" x 11½"), xv, 194 pp. Black & White plates/pages. Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine by John Alexander Pope offers a fascinating study of the exquisite Chinese porcelain pieces housed in the Ardebil Shrine, one of..... More