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Book Condition: Used Fine
Jacket condition: Fine
Seller: Zikorn

United States
About Item: An Essay on Criticism, first published in 1711 is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744).Limited edition, Number 169 of 250 copies, together with 1711 facsimile volume, privately printed by John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr., San Francisco, 1928.2 volumes. Chronology of Pope's life and Essay text rendered by John Henry Nash. Bibliographical note by Cora Edgerton Sanders. Introduction by William Andrews Clark, Jr. Illustrated with Frontispiece portrait in dry-point by William Wilke. 12.5 x 9 inches, light blue paper boards, vellum spine, spine lettered in gilt, 9 x 6.5 inches, same as larger volume, both volumes housed in individual compartments in a single slipcase with printed paper spine label. Privately printed for presentation on behalf of socialite William Andrews Clark, Jr, including a facsimile of the first edition and a beautifully bound folio edition.William Andrews Clark, Jr., son of Senator William Andrews Clark, Sr., was a… Read More
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