POPE, ALEXANDER. An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington. Occasion'd...

POPE, ALEXANDER. An Epistle to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington. Occasion'd by his publishing Palladio's Designs of the Baths, Arches, Theatres, &c. of Ancient Rome. 14, [1] pages, including half-title ("Of Taste") and final ad leaf. Folio, 330x210 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked; contents clean apart from light soiling and faint crease on half-title, and small ink blot in blank margin of B1. Armorial bookplate of Oliver Brett. London: L. Gilliver, 1731

Estimate $400 - 600

first edition of the first of Pope's verse Epistles, addressed to his patron, the architect Richard Boyle, third Earl of Burlington, a leading proponent of Palladian style in England. The poem satirizes the vulgarity and ostentatious expense of contemporary estates built for the wealthy, praising Burlington's designs in contrast. This copy is Todd's A edition, second state. Foxon P908; Griffith 259; Rothschild 1602; William B. Todd, "Concealed Pope Editions," The Book Collector, Volume 5 (1956), pages 48-49.

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