Pope Alexander, Signed (24 results)

Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Slightly dampstained. Barbara Mertz's signature and Barbara G. Mertz Rev Trust custom bookplate on half title page. This book formed part of Barbara G. Mertz's personal library at her home in Frederick, Maryland. (poetry, literature).

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by Peter Ackroyd. Physical description; x, 101 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Scriblerus Club Studies. Pedantry Fiction. Pride and vanity Fiction. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: fine/fine. 26.5 x 21 cm. 341pp A fine copy in dust jacket. Laid in is a SIGNED letter from author. Spine color has faded a little. "Using unpulished archival documents in the Vatican and Lateran archives, this study discusses in detail the 30 year campaign for the construction of the tomb and identifies the artists and artisans responsible for the project. ".

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges somewhat slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. SIGNED by Peter Ackroyd. Physical description; x, 101 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Scriblerus Club Studies. Pedantry Fiction. Pride and vanity Fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the fep. The book is bright and firm ; dj has some tears - little loss. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Iinscribed by author.

Illustr, 9 x 5.5, cloth, 326 pp with index, covers heavily worn and darkened, extremities bumped and fraying, spine ends chipped, hinges loose, contents toned, a rather loose copy, but INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR SHERBURN.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. 1888 Antique Print - ALEXANDER POPE Bicentenary Commenoration Stanhope (20) For more info please ask seller a question. Signed by Author(s).

"Faber & Faber, London 1930. 1st edition. Octavo. 316 pages. Green paper frontispiece by Rex Whistler. Nine black and white plates. Full yellow buckram lettered in gilt. Top edge gilt. Printed on hand-made paper. Number 64 of 220 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in remains of original unprinted acetate wrapper. Also wrapped about the book is the near-fine, price-clipped dust-wrapper for the trade edition which repeats Whistler's frontispiece and has a further drawing on the spine." London: Faber and Faber 1930, 1930. First limited edition. Signed by the author. No. 112 of 220 copies printed on English hand-made paper. 8vo. (225x145mm). pp. x, 316. Portrait frontispiece with tissue guard and seven illustrations with tissue guards. Sitwell's study of Alexander Pope. Original yellow buckram, gilt lettered on spine, top edge gilt, others uncut, contained in a rubbed and generally worn bright green slip case. One leaf marked; a very good copy. Edith Sitwell's eighteenth century has been described as "emphatically not an age of rationalism, but of eccentricity". Sitwell imagines Pope "as a misfit in a world that insisted on sameness, an artist of gleeful perversity who delighted in cataloguing the absurdities of dunces. Sitwell was writing a passionate defence of an ill, odd, disfigured, ostracized poet whose work was a way of getting through the 'long disease' of life". (Alexandra Harris, Romantic Moderns, p65). Will be dispatched within 48 hours of ordering.

Condition: Good. Folio. 11" x 17 5/8". Two Unbound Pages: Facsimile Of Manuscript With Deckled Edges, and Transcription With Commentary, Very Good with some creasing. Page reproduced & transcribed is last of four. From the Autograph Edition-de-Luxe, Numbered 36, signed by Oliver H. Leigh, Editorial Director.

From the Macqueen-Pope papers (see his entry in the Oxford DNB). Merriman was accorded the honour of an episode of the BBC's Desert Island Discs in 1964. 2pp, 12mo. Signed 'Percy' and addressed to 'Dear Popie'. In good condition, lightly aged, with one dog-eared corner and folded twice for postage. Begins: 'Am not of course seeking any publicity over your book on St. James Theatre [published in 1958] only wish I could help more. / You know of course Allan Ainsworth [sic, for 'Aynesworth'] is alive the doyen of the Garrick Club! He played often with G[eorge]. A[lexander]. - in Pinero & Wilde. In the Prisoner [of Zenda, 1896] he was the young artist - charming looking young man. Another lovely young woman was in cast. Lily Hanbury! H. M. Vernon [sic, for W. H. Vernon] was Col. Sapt & Franklin Dyall young Fritz Von Tarlenheim [Dyall was in fact 'Josef', while 'Von Tarlenheim' was played by Arthur Royston] / There was a marvellous duel in prologue - [.] G. A. very fine swordsman'. He ends, after a short paragraph beginning 'What a play!': 'Cherio old man[.] No reply wanted'.

Of this edition, designed by Francis Meynell, 750 copies have been printed on Van Gelder paper in the Fell Press by John Johnson, Printer to the University, at the University Press, Oxford. This is number 233. xcvii, 165 pp. A miscellany edited by Pope himself, who interspersed among poems by friends of his, some 37 of his own poems not featured in "The Whole Works of Mr. Pope" published six weeks earlier. Top edge gilt. Front and bottom edges untrimmed. Beautifully bound in heavy dark green cloth boards with gilt decorative margin to both boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Spine faded. Overall condition VG+.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). A limited edition of this critical study, re-evaluating the form and precision of Alexander Pope's poetry, signed by the author, Edith Sitwell. In the publisher's original yellow cloth, housed in a vibrant green paper covered slipcase.This copy is a limited edition, printed on English hand-made paper, limited two two hundred and twenty copies, of which two hundred copies are for sale. This copy is number one hundred and twelve.Illustrated with eight monochrome plates, including a frontispiece.Flat signed by the author, Edith Sitwell, to the limitation page. This is a comprehensive critical study, in which Sitwell his poetic achievement against the Romantic dismissal of his formal precision.Edith Sitwell (18871964) was a leading English poet and critic, known for her avant-garde style and for championing neglected figures in English literature. In the publisher's cloth. Externally, smart. Slight offsetting to endpapers with the odd slight spot. The odd slight handling mark to boards. Slight rubbing to boards and extremities. Slipcase, sound. Rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to paper. Slight rubbing to boards. Slight cracking to extremities, with tape repairs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Offsetting to limitation page. Author's flat signing to limitation page. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. (10), 578 pages and xxiii, 195 pages. Two books bound together in tan buckram in 1907. Both first editions--the Ruffhead book published in 1769; the Roscoe book published in 1825. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1831-1917), the Concord, Massachusetts author and educator who was a prominent supporter of the abolitioniat John Brown. Also signed on the first title page by Stephen James Wilson Tabor, the Iowa Republican and abolitionaist whom Lincoln appointed Fourth Auditor of the United States Treasury. The book is tightly bound, internally clean with moderate soiling/staining on cover; a faint damp stain at spine, light edgewear; occasional spots of faint foxing; pages very lightly tanned. There is minor pencil underlining of the Roscoe book. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SIGNED. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Folio, size: 13 ¼ in. x 20. No. 4 of 75 copies, signed by Chafetz and Battersby, and by the designer RobertTauber. A portfolio of unbound woodcuts accompanying a short life of each poet. Printed label titling on spine and front cover. Signed by Author(s).

Two volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait and pp. xii, [ii], 340, [16] index; [iv], 389, [13] index; with 12 other plates; contemporary calf, gilt, spines gilt, red morocco labels (a bit worn, joints slightly cracked). First edition of the first full-scale biography of Pope, curiously presented with a leaf containing a royal patent, signed by the Duke of Newcastle as Secretary of State. Straus discusses this work at some length (The Unspeakable Curll, pp. 193-8), and concludes that 'amongst the hundred worst books the Memoirs must be given a high place' (but he was writing almost a century ago: he could not have imagined what competition there would be in the later 20th and early 21st centuries). In his dismissive appraisal, Straus assumes that 'William Ayre' is a fiction, and that the true author was Edmund Curll. The truth lies somewhere in between: William Ayre does seem to have been a real person, because in 1739 his name was affixed to a poem titled Truth, attacking the Essay on Man (Foxon A377). However, contemporary readers assumed, no doubt correctly, that Curll was closely involved with the publication of his book. The text does display Curll's characteristic lack of coherent organisation, but at the same time it is not unsympathetic to Pope; nor does it entirely gloss over Curll's own sometimes less than savoury practices. Baines and Rogers, in their recent biography of Curll, style Straus's opinion 'too hasty a verdict', and allow for some merit: 'As a repository of information, the two volumes easily outdistance anything produced on Pope up to this time, including Jacob's Lives of the Poets and the two instant lives from 1744. Much of the information happens to be accurate, too' (p. 305). Some copies of this work have a duplicate of the portrait of Pope in volume I as a frontispiece in the second volume as well, as called for in the 'directions to the binder for placing the cutts'; the same list, however, omits the final portrait in the second volume, of Lord Bolingbroke. Griffith 606. Provenance: contemporary signature of Cath: Williams in each volume.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 8vo. 21.8cm, in 2 volumes, xxviii,315 & xxiv,326pp., bound in attractive dark green polished and speckled hard calf, gilt ruled on raised bands, gilt spine titles, single ruled gilt borders on the boards, elaborate wide inner gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, attractive fine signed binding Zaehnsdorf, fine. (ds1) - Alexander Pope (1688-1744), English poet, literary dictator of his age and regarded as the English epitome of neo-Classicism. His poetry is characterized by satire, epigram, didacticism, smoothness and technical finish, invective, biting and malicious wit, and skillful use of the closed or heroic couplet. Pope, a Catholic and the son of a linen-draper in London, was unable to attend a public school or a university because of governmental restrictions against Catholic after the Revolution of 1688. A hunchback and cripple as the result of a serious illness in childhood, Pope relieved his sense of rancor in jealous, spiteful, and venomous attacks on his contemporaries; because of this, he was called the "Wicked Wasp of Twickenham", form the name of the London suburb where he lived. He was a Tory in politics and a friend of John Gay and Jonathan Swift. His best known works are "Pastorals", 1709; "Essay on Criticism", 1711; which made Pope famous and which, he claimed he wrote when he was only twelve years old; "The Rape of the Lock", 1712; "Windsor Forest", 1713; translations of the "Iliad", 1715-1720; and the "Odyssey", 1725 -1726;, etc. etc.

Two works in one volume, 4to (280 x 220mm), both title pages in red and black, pp. [xxxvi], [9]-224, 215-222, 225-332; [viii], 74; rebound in modern half calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. First quarto editions of two important publications among Pope's later works: it was quarto printing that Pope regarded as more fitting for his most significant productions, especially towards the end of his life. With the Letters, there were several last-minute changes to the text including the addition of four letters to Swift which appear on pp. 322-332. An extra gathering, signed *Dd1-4 and paginated 215-222, was also produced: in this copy it has been misbound after Ee it should have been inserted after Dd3 which makes for a different pagination sequence than the one normally reported. The Essay on Man is the first quarto edition of the final text: it was advertised for sale on 20 April 1734, the same day as the folio editions. Although Foxon says it was printed after the folio, 'the quarto seems to have been the version generally sold'. Griffith 454 (Letters) and 336 (Essay); Foxon P852.

(6)36(1) S., 8°, OHalb-Leder, 5 Bünde, marmorierter Deckelbezug und Lederecken, vergoldeter Rückentitel ,blau-schwarzer Titeldruck. Stempel des Buchbinders "E. Riethmüller, Stuttgart" auf hinterem Vorsatz. "Dieses Werk wurde als dritter Phaidon-Druck von Stähle & Friedel in Stuttgart hergestellt. Die Auflage beträgt 320 Exemplare, und zwar 20 Exemplare auf deutschem Bütten, vom Übersetzer signiert, numeriert I - XX, mit der Hand in Leder gebunden, und 300 Exemplare auf Japanpapier, numeriert 1 - 300. Nr. 18 (handschriftlich)". Das vorliegende Exemplar ist demnach eines der Nornalausgabe. 3. Phaidon-Druck. Das Leder an den Ecken deutlich berieben, das Marmorpapier an den Kanten berieben. Innen ein gutes Exemplar. Good copy. Limited for about 300 copies, numbered. Actually it is not possible, sending books to the USA. Aktuell können keine Bücher in die USA versandt werden. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1000.

First Edition. ALEXANDER POPE, Faber & Faber, 1930, first edition, just a bit of tanning to the spine extremities, else a vg+/near fine copy in a near vg dust-wrapper with a thumbnail size chip missing from the upper left corner of the front dust-wrapper panel and darkening to the spine extremities and upper and lower margins of the front dust-wrapper panel. 1/220 copies specially bound and SIGNED by the author.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. Unbound folio sheets in portfolio. #44 of 75 copies. SIGNED. 13.5 x 20.5. From the press of the Ohio State University, seven great poets illustrated through Chafetz's woodcut portraits, with Battersby's reflections on the opposite page. The final folio is the Colophon, which gives a behind-the-scenes peek at this outstanding work. SIGNED also by Robert Tauber, the printer and former Press director. Paper wraps (somewhat stained) over stiff board (edges bowed out slightly) are light brown with paper label wrapped 'round spine. Interior is fine. From the estate of an alumnus and long-time supporter of OSU. Signed by Author(s).

copper engraving. 307 x 235 mm. (image) (313 x 238 mm. sheet). signed in the plate. A good dark impression on laid paper, trimmed just inside plate mark at top & sides & 4 cm outside plate mark at bottom. (2 neat short repaired tears at edges extending into image - no loss, mounting tape on verso on verso). Provenance: rubberstamps on verso of the Städtisches Museum Leipzig and Museum der Bildenen Kunste Leipzig. Numerous architectural and urban projects were undertaken in Rome under the direction of Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667), who engaged the talents of leading architects Gianlorenzo Bernini, Pietro da Cortona, and Carlo Rainaldi among others to accomplish his vision. Among these were the church and piazza at Santa Maria della Pace, the Via del Corso, Piazza Colonna and associated buildings, the reworking of the Porta del Popolo, the Piazza del Popolo and Santa Maria del Popolo, the Piazza San Pietro, the Scala Regia and interior embellishments in the Vatican Palace and St. Peter's, Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, part of the Palazzo del Quirinale, the obelisk and elephant in Piazza della Minerva, and the Palazzo Chigi. Hollstein 138.

First edition. First edition. Profusely illustrated. xxxiv, 391 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed on the flyleaf from Wimsatt: "For Allen and Helen [Heinz] in appreciation of a shared anniversary and with very good wishes, from Bill - 19 November, 1974" Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket Profusely illustrated. xxxiv, 391 pp. 1 vols. 4to.

Frontispiece portrait & plates. 6 vols. 12mo. Signed by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863) of A Visit from St. Nicholas (more commonly known today as Twas the Night Before Christmas) and dated in pencil on the ffep in Volume 6. Bound in handsome contemporary brown tree calf, gilt spine, spines rubbed, lacking one label, joints cracked, foxed Frontispiece portrait & plates. 6 vols. 12mo.

ALEXANDER POPE (1688-1744). Pope was an English poet and translator who was particularly celebrated for his satires like The Rape of the Lock.DS. 1pg. April 30, 1715. N.d. A partially-printed document signed A. Pope. It is a receipt for a subscription (essentially a pre-order) to Popes English translation of Homers Iliad that was to be published in six volumes from 1715 to 1720: REceivd of His Grace the Duke of Queensberry Two Guineas, being the first Payment to the Subscription, for the Translation of Homers Iliads; to be delivered, in Quires, to the Bearer hereof, in the manner specifyd in the Proposals. A. Pope. The Duke of Queensbury was Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensbury and 2nd Duke of Dover (1698-1778). The receipt is matted and framed with an engraved image and short biography of Pope. The framing is new, with UV-resistant glass and acid-free materials. The receipt is in very good condition with some toning.