The Rape of the Lock, an Heroi-Comical Poem

first edition

1798 · London

by Alexander Pope
London: C. Bensley / F.J. Du Roveray et al., 1798. Very Good-. London: Printed by C. Bensley; for F.J. Du Roveray, 1798. First Bensley Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, spine elaborately tooled in calf, blue papier-peint endpapers; xxix,[1],79pp.; engrave frontispiece (tissue-guard) and five leaves of plates. Boards scuffed at extremities, front board rather crudely reattached, else a Very Good, internally clean and bright copy.

Splendidly-illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's popular 1712 piece of high burlesque, boasting plates by multiple popular artists of the age, including Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) (truncated)
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