Pope, Alexander

4to (290 x 220), half-title, title within double ruled border, printed in red and black and with an engraved device, engraved head- and tailpieces and initials, contemporary English red morocco panelled in gilt with a central panel composed of roundels and small foliate sprays, surrounded by further panels of triple gilt fillets with leafy corner-pieces, spine tooled gilt in six compartments with similar motifs, gilt edges and turn-ins

George Simon Harcourt, 2nd Earl Harcourt, engraved armorial bookplate

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A SUPERB COPY, from the family library of important patrons; Pope stayed at Stanton Harcourt in 1717–1718, during which time he translated the fifth volume of the Iliad. The tower in which he worked was subsequently named after him. Given the dates of Pope's stay at Stanton Harcourt, the date of this book, and the sumptuous nature of the binding, it is possible that this copy was presented by the author.