THE DUNCIAD, IN FOUR BOOKS. PRINTED ACCORDING TO THE COMPLETE COPY FOUND IN THE YEAR 1742. WITH THE PROLEGOMENA OF SCRIBLERUS, AND NOTES VARIORUM. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SEVERAL NOTES NOW FIRST PUBLISH'D, THE HYPERCRITICS OF ARISTARCHUS, AND HIS DISSERTATION ON THE HERO OF THE POEM

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[6],v-x,[i]-xxxvii,[1],[39]- 208,[12],[2],[211]-235pp. Quarto (24.5 x 19cm). Old calf and marbled boards (spine quite worn, with boards detached and darkened at edges), some foxing early and late, but a good copy. First complete edition, the printing on ordinary paper. "Here, for the first time, the four Books of the Dunciad and all the critical apparatus are brought together in one volume. And in this edition, for the first time, Colley Cibber is substituted in the place of Theobald as hero of the poem ." - Griffith. As usual, X3 is in its canceled state. In this copy, The 'Declaration' leaf and the two indices bound prior to the Appendix, and the unsigned leaf [pi] bearing 'Martin Scriblerus His Prolegomena and Illustrations to the Dunciad ." is bound before A1 (the half-title). "One of the most challenging and distinctive works in the history of English poetry" - Maynard Mack. GRIFFITH 578. ROTHSCHILD 1599. FOXON P796. ESTC T5560. N° de ref. del artículo WRCLIT88482

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