The Works [with] ... Volume II by Pope, Alexander - 1735

London: W. Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot; J. Wright for Lawton Gilliver, 1735. First editions, quarto issue, first issue without Tonson in imprint. Large folding frontispiece portrait of Pope by G. Vertue after Jervas, engraved vignettes, engraved head- and tailpiece, woodcut and engraved initials. [xxxii], 435, [1]; [viii], 76, [41]-71, [1], [7]-27, [1], [39]-78, [2], 87, [1], 14, 19, [1], 219, [1] pp. O2 and 2X4 in vol. I are cancels. 2 vols. 4to. Contemporary calf, spine gilt, contrasting morocco spine labels. Labels chipped, joint cracked, covers scuffed, short tear to frontispiece at fold, some light marginal spotting and dampstaining in vol. I and tear to margin of 2C4. First editions, quarto issue, first issue without Tonson in imprint. Large folding frontispiece portrait of Pope by G. Vertue after Jervas, engraved vignettes, engraved head- and tailpiece, woodcut and engraved initials. [xxxii], 435, [1]; [viii], 76, [41]-71, [1], [7]-27, [1], [39]-78, [2], 87, [1], 14, 19, [1], 219, [1] pp. O2 and 2X4 in vol. I are cancels. 2 vols. 4to. First edition of the two-volume Works, uniformly bound. Like Pope's Homer, the Works were issued in quarto, folio and large folio formats. Griffith notes eleven pieces first printed in volume I, including "Eloisa to Abelard" and the early prose work, "A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry" Griffith 79 & 372; Rothschild 1584 & 1626