The Works of Alexander Pope; With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem.

Each volume with an engraved frontispiece and title vignette. Four volumes. 8vo. [180 x 115 x 95 mm]. Bound in contemporary cloth, the boards blocked in blind with a triple fillet border, corner pieces and a large ornamental centre piece. The spine divided into five compartments, lettered in gilt in the second and fourth, pale yellow endleaves. (Spines slightly toned, extremities lightly bumped). Light foxing to the title pages and frontispieces, otherwise very clean. Overall in very good condition. Bookplates of John Porter and Johnathan Rashleigh to the front paste downs. Edited by George Croly (1780-1860), Irish poet, novelist, historian and Anglican priest who served as rector of St Stephen Walbrook from 1835 until his death.