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CXLVII, 368 / 524 / XVI, 539 / XIV, 513 / XVI, 538 / XLVII, 448 / XXIX, 491 / XXXI, 524 / Correspondence IV / XXX, 555 / XXI, 561 Seiten / p., with Portraits and other Illustrations. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Poetry I / Poetry II / Poetry III / Poetry IV / The Life and Index / Correspondence / Correspondence II / Correspondence III / Correspondence V and Prose Works - ADVERTISEMENT OF WARBURTON TO HIS EDITION OF POPE S WORKS, 1751. -- Mk. Pope, in his last illness, amused himself, amidst the care of his higher concerns, in preparing a corrected and complete edition of his writings; and, with his usual delicacy, was even solicitous to prevent any share of the offence they might occasion, from falling on the friend whom he had engaged to give them to the public. In discharge of this trust, the public has here a complete edition of his works, executed in such a manner, as, I am persuaded, would have been to his satisfaction. The editor hath not, for the sake of profit, suffered the author s name to be made cheap by a subscription ; nor his works to be defrauded of their due honours by a vulgar or inelegant impression ; nor his memory to be disgraced by any pieces unworthy of his talents or virtue. On the contrary, he hath, at a very great expense, ornamented this edition with all the advantages which the best artists in paper, printing, and sculpture could bestow upon it. -- If the public hath waited longer than the deference due to its generous impatience for the author s writings should have suffered, it was owing to a reason which the editor need not be ashamed to tell. It was his regard to the family interests of his deceased friend. Mr. Pope, at his death, had left large impressions of several parts of his works, unsold, the property of which was adjudged to belong to his executors ; and the editor was willing they should have time to dispose of them to the best advantage, before the publication of this edition (which hath been long prepared) should put a stop to the sale. But it may be proper' to be a little more particular concerning the superiority of this edition above all the preceding, so far as Mr. Pope himself was concerned. What the editor hath done, the reader must collect for himself. -- The first volume, and the original poems in the second, are here first printed from a copy corrected throughout by the author himself, even to the very preface, which, with several additional notes in his own hand, he delivered to the editor a little before his death. The juvenile translations, in the other part of the second volume, it was never his intention to bring into this edition of his works, on account of the levity of some, the freedom of others, and the little importance of all. But these being the property of other men, the editor had it not in his power to follow the author s intention. -- The third volume (all but the Essay on Ilan, which together with the Essay on Criticism, the author, a little before his death, had corrected and published in quarto, as a specimen of his projected edition,) was printed by him in his last illness, but never published, in the manner it is now given. The disposition of the Epistle on the Characters of Men is quite altered; that on the Characters of Women much enlarged ; and the Epistles on Riches and Taste corrected and improved. To these advantages of the third volume must be added a great number of true verses, taken from the author s manuscript copies of these poems, communicated by him for this purpose to the editor. These, the author, when he first published the poems to which they belong, thought proper, for various reasons, to omit. Some, from the manuscript copy of the Essay on Man, whi. Seller Inventory # 1191705
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