The Progress of Love. In Four Eclogues.

Lyttelton's charming Progress of Love , dedicated to important members of Georgian Society. The Progress of Love. In Four Eclogues. I. Uncertainty. To Mr. Pope. II. Hope. To the honourable George Doddington, Esq; III. Jealousy. To Edw. Walpole, Esq; IV. Possession. To the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Cobham. London : printed for L. Gilliver, 1732. The Volume is paginated as follows: [2], 23, [1] p. With an errata slip. First Edition. The Volume is in Very Good Condition Disbound, with generally clean well margined leaves, and with some small stains and fox marks otherwise. Some puckering from the pasted errata to the front leaf. Each leaf measures 337 x 227 mm. George Lyttelton dedicated his four poems to beneficial acquaintances from Georgian Society; Alexander Pope, The Honourable George Doddington, Edward Walpole and Lord Cobham. The poems were circulated first in manuscript, amongst Lyttelton's friends for suggested revisions. His friend, Alexander Pope contributed the final concluding upbeat couplet for Uncertainty dedicated to himself; "Back to his Flock more cheerful he return'd / When now the setting Sun less fiercly burn'd./ Blue vapours rose along the mazy Rills, / And Light's last blushes ting'd the distant hills." ESTC:T44565 Foxon, L333.…