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Les Principes de la Morale et du Gout,

by POPE, ALEXANDER

Price: $175.00

  • Bookseller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books
  • Seller Inventory #: 7472
  • Publisher: Paris: Chez Briasson Libraire,
  • Date published: 1737.

Book Description

Paris: Chez Briasson Libraire, 1737. en deux Poemes, traduits de l’Anglois de M. Pope. Par M. [Jean Francois du Bellay] du Resnel. viii, 243, [5]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, and the privilege and errata pages at end. Contemporary calf, spine gilt; upper joint split but firm. First edition of this fine verse rendition of Pope’s Essay on Man, and Essay on Criticism, with a long, original critical essay by the translator. The work was much reprinted, but this first edition is uncommon. OCLC records seven copies.

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