Alexander POPE

New edition.
Contemporary full blonde calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with gilt dentelle and fleurons as well as a brown morocco title label. Triple gilt fillet framing the boards. Gilt roulette on the edges and headcaps. All edges gilt. Good copy.
These two poems by Pope were brought together quite early and multiple editions were made of them, the first is a rather lyrical didactic poem on the nature of man and his place in the universe, and the second, quite different, is a graceful and libertine poem on the divinities of love, sylphs and gnomes, who assist young girls in their amorous emotions.

First French edition in Pierre Henri Larcher's translation.
Contemporary full marbled calf binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title label. One tear with slight loss to the third compartment. Good copy.
Martinus Scriblerus was originally a literary club whose members (Pope, Swift, John Gay, Arbuthnot...) gathered around the satire of knowledge and erudition.
Scriblerus means scribbler. The texts were written collectively and by different hands, but always under the fictitious name of Martinus Scriblerus. The club was founded in 1712 and closed in 1745. The work therefore establishes the biography of the illustrious scholar Martinus Scriblerus with all the...

First collected edition; illustrated with 1 portrait and 5 figures in volume I, 1 frontispiece and 13 figures in volume II, 1 frontispiece in volume IV; the portrait by Syfang, the figures drawn by Blakey, Wale and Walker and engraved by Fritzsch.
Contemporary full glazed brown calf binding. Smooth spine decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Large lack along the upper joint of volume I; lacks to joints at head of volume II; scuffs along the joints of volume III; lacks to joints of volume IV; joints cracked at foot of volume V; scuffs along volume VI; most corners bumped. Pope was both the greatest classical poet of England during the first half of the 18th century, universally...

New edition, illustrated with a frontispiece by Delamonce, an engraved portrait by Kornlein, and 23 figures by Frankendaal. This edition contains two more volumes than the 1754 edition.
Full marbled brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title and volume labels. Headcaps partly worn on volumes III, VI and VIII. Minor defects. 4 corners slightly bumped. Fairly good decorative set.Volumes 6 to 8 contain Pope's correspondence, notably that with Swift and Gay. Pope was both a great classical poet (the greatest of the first half of the 18th century), a philosopher noted for his Essay on Man, as well as a novelist: Memoirs of Martin Scrivelius. The works notably...

New edition expanded with the English text for the "best pieces" and illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author by Kneller, ornamented by Marillier and engraved by Lebeau, as well as 17 fine figures by Marillier engraved by Dambrun, Duflos, Gaucher, Godefroy et al.
Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Smooth spines ornately gilt in compartments with floral and star motifs, as well as small bird tools, blonde morocco title and volume labels. Covers triple-ruled with stars at corners. All edges marbled. One headcap damaged at corner. Despite this minor flaw, very handsome copy, very fresh, of this beautifully illustrated work.
Edition prepared by Abbé de La...

First French edition of the Essay on Man translated by Etienne de Silhouette, and second edition of the Turkish Letters first published in 1730, by the same publisher in Cologne.
Modern full parchment paper boards binding. Black sheep title label.
Pope's Essay on Man, a philosophical poem, is translated in prose, and is preceded by a long preface by the translator. In the Turkish Letters, Saint-Foix was inspired by Montesquieu's model (who himself was inspired by Manara's Chinese Spy model), but while the Letters follow the same principle, they do not contain, as in Montesquieu, the lengthy descriptions; they are entirely devoted to narrative and to the comparison of manners and...