POPE, Alexander. Miscellaneous Works [...] Translated from t - Lot 262

POPE, Alexander. Miscellaneous Works [...] Translated from the English. The works of the English poet in a lavish edition featuring 18 full-page illustrations. The set is bound in well-preserved full leather bindings decorated with grotesque motifs. Amsterdam and Leipzig: Arkstée & Merkus, 1754. 6 tomes in 6 in-12 volumes, each bound in full fawn calfskin, smooth spine decorated with grotesque motifs, triple gilt fillet framing the covers, gilt fillet on the edges, guilloché caps, gilt and marbled edges. 2 unnumbered folios, XX, 1 unnumbered folio (table of contents), 414 pp.; 2 unnumbered folios, 446 pp., 1 unnumbered folio (errata); 4 unnumbered folios and 428 pp.; 2 unnumbered folios, XII and 420 pp.; 2 unnumbered folios, XII and 395 pp.; 2 unnumbered folios, XII and 369 pp., publisher’s catalog (11 unnumbered folios). 1 portrait and 5 illustrations in Volume I, 1 frontispiece and 13 illustrations in Volume II, 1 frontispiece in Volume IV. Minor wear from handling, scattered foxing. Collected edition, “considerably expanded,” and illustrated with a total of 3 frontispieces and 18 figures drawn by Blakey, Wale, and Walker and engraved by Fritzsch. Handwritten bookplates in Volumes I and V: “DPMCOC to Mathilde.” A very fine set.