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The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
de Pope, Alexander
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
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nr Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
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Arundel Street, London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Beardsley, Aubrey. 1st edition, 1st state. 48pp, embroidered with nine full page drawings by Aubrey Beardsley (frontispiece with tissue guard). Green cloth boards with elaborate and extensive gilt decorations, bevelled edges, top edge gilded, all other page edges deckled. (Boards a little rubbed, mildly scuffed at corners and spine folds). Bookplate on front paste down, a little toning to pages, especially the tissue guard over the frontispiece, a couple of chips to page edges. Overall a very good clean and strong copy of this new edition of Pope's Rape, with Beardsley illustrations. One of the extraordinary products of Beardsley's Annus Mirabilis of 1896. The Rape of the Lock was first published in 1712 by Bernard Lintott, at the sign of the Cross-Keys, between the two Temple Gates. Fleet Street. It was then in two cantos. It was occasioned by a frolic, carried rather beyond the bounds of good breeding, in which Lord Petre cut of a lock of Mrs Arabella Fermour's hair. The poem was undertaken at Mr Caryl's request in order to reconcile the two families. Such was its success, Pope was induced to extend it to five cantos by the addition of the machinery of sylphs and Gnomes. Those readers anxious to be acquainted with the original form will find its extent indicated in Pope's notes to the poem, which are printed in this volume at the end, with Pope's final revisions. First edition, 1st state : 'Leonard Smithers' at base of spine, without the '& Co' (see Samuels Lasner, p. 105).
Sinopsis
Alexander Pope was born on May 21, 1688. He was brought up a Roman Catholic at a time where the laws of England were prejudicial towards Catholics. He suffered tuberculosis as a child and as a consequence never grew taller than 4'6'. He first published The Rape of the Lock when he was twenty-three years old in 1712. Its success made him a celebrity in polite society. He later added to it in 1714 and 1717. It was written to reconcile two families who had fallen out over a similar incident where a Lord Petre had cut off a lock of hair from Arabella Fermor's head. Pope went on to translate the works of Homer and produce The Dunciad and An Essay on Man . He died on May 30, 1744.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 002770
- Título
- The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
- Autor
- Pope, Alexander
- Ilustrador
- Beardsley, Aubrey
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- Editorial
- Leonard Smithers
- Lugar de publicación
- Arundel Street, London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1896
- Tamaño
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12"
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Poetry,
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