Item Description: | "750 copies ... printed ... by John Johnson ... at the University Press, Oxford. This is number 40." An anonymous collection of poems, the compilation and editing of which Ault, A. E. Case and National union catalog: pre-1956 impprints attribute to Pope. Ault also identifies as Pope's "some thirty-seven" of the anonymous poems, not included in "The whole works of Mr. Pope" published by Lintot less than six weeks earlier. A reprint of the Queen's College copy of the second, or corrected, issue; except for a few misprints, it follows the 1717 text in spelling and punctuation. With facsim. of te original, uncorrcted t.p.: Poems on several occasions. By His Grace the Duke of Buckingham ... and other eminent hands. London, Lintot, 1717. |