first edition xii, 334 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
1756 · London
by (Pope, Alexander) [Warton, Joseph]
London: Printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-noster Row, 1756. First edition. xii, 334 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt spine with red and green labels. Slight edge wear. Handsome Copy. First edition. xii, 334 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Volume I "only," although Warton abandoned the second volume for over twenty-five years until 1781, "when he was almost certainly fired into action by Johnson's Life of Pope; he took it up again and Dodsley published it in 1782. But the first volume, published March 26, 1756, was itself reviewed by Samuel Johnson in the Literary Magazine, I, no. 1 (1756). See David Fairer, "The Writing and Printing of Joseph Warton's Essay on Pope" in Studies in Bibliography XXX (1977). Rothschild 2523
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