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Order Nr. 53823 POPE'S DUNCIAD OF 1728, A HISTORY AND FACSIMILE. David L. Vander Meulen
(Pope, Alexander).

POPE'S DUNCIAD OF 1728, A HISTORY AND FACSIMILE.

Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia and The New York Public Library, 1991. 8vo. cloth, paper cover and spine labels. xvii, 174 pages. A comprehensive account of the composition and production of the first edition of Pope's Dunciad, accompanied by a photofacsimile of a copy recording Pope's original manuscript readings. The appendices identify hundreds of textual changes Pope introduced in the later 1728 printings and record the names with which pirate printers filled..... READ MORE

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                           Contents

    Foreword by Lola L. Szladits / ix 
    Preface / xi 
    Abbreviations / xvii

The History of Pope's DUNCIAD, 1728
    The Work / 3 
    The Edition / 29 
    The Copy / 41 
    The Annotations / 47 
    Works Cited / 65

THE DUNCIAD of 1728: A Facsimile 73

Appendixes
    1. Collation of the Authorized 1728 Impressions / 143 
    2. The Texts of the Unauthorized Editions of 1728 / 156
    3. Varieties and States of the Altar Frontispiece / 161 
    4. The 1728 Advertisement for The Progress of Dulness / 164
    5. Annotations in the 1728 Huntington Dunciad / 166

Index 171