Memoirs of the life and writings of Alexander Pope, Esq : faithfully collected from authentic authors, original manuscripts, and the testimonies of many persons of credit and honour: with critical observations. Adorned with the Heads of divers Illustrious persons, treated of in these memoirs, curiously engrav'd by the best hands. In two volumes.
William Ayre, Edmund Curll (Attributed name), Nathaniel Parr (Engraver)
Microform, English, MDCCXLV. [1745]
Printed by his Majesty's authority, for the author, and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster., London, MDCCXLV. [1745]
2 volumes : portraits ; 8vo
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Pagination: v.1: [2], xii [i.e. x], 340, [16] p., [7] leaves of plates -- v.2: [4], 389, [15] p., [7] leaves of plates
Signatures: v.1: A⁶ B-Z⁸ Aa² -- v.2: [A]² B-Z⁸ (B1 missigned Bb) Aa-Cc⁸ Dd² (Dd2 blank)
Frontis. portrait plate of Pope in v.1, and indeed all the other plates, signed: "Parr sculp."
"Directions to the binder for placing the cuts [plates]." in both volumes on verso of preliminary leaf [A]2 in v.2. The plate of Lord Bolingbroke facing p.353 in v.2 is not listed in this list of plates for v.2
Head- and tail- pieces; initials
Errata: v.1: At base of leaf Aa2 verso at the end of text -- v.2: At base of leaf [A]2 at beginning of text
Includes initial letters patent
Horizontal chain lines
Final leaf in v.2 blank
Some authorities attribute this work to Edmund Curll. cf. Ralph Straus. The unspeakable Curll
Microfilm, Woodbridge, CT, Research Publications, Inc., 1986, 1 microfilm reel ; 35mm, (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3691, no. 02)