The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope, First Edition (33 results)

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Fine. Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator). First Thus. Embroidered with nine drawings by Aubrey Beardsley. With an introduction by Sophie Gee. A LIKE NEW very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. xxxiii + 38pp. SB-24.

Hardback. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. 55 pages with 11 page introduction and 15 pages of notes at the rear. Thick blue card boards. There is the odd note in the margin by a previous owner butoverall good with white pages and tight binding.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. It's a preowned item in good condition and includes all the pages. It may have some general signs of wear and tear, such as markings, highlighting, slight damage to the cover, minimal wear to the binding, etc., but they will not affect the overall reading experience.

Condition: New. The author was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights into human nature have entered the language, and whose verse still astonishes with its energy and inventiveness centuries after his death. This book includes selections of his work that follows the path of his poetic genius over his lifetime. Editor(s): Erskine-Hill, Howard; Damrosch, Leo. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368. 2011. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

27.5 x 20.5cms 47pp 10 b/w illusts very good paperback This Dover edition reproduces the first edition: complete text of the poem notes seven full-page drawings two half-page drawings & the original cover design by Beardsley.

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator). First Edition. 94pp. + (viii) full page illustrations. Dual language English & Czech facing texts. Inscribed by Hilsky for Czech poet & prolific multilingual translator Ewald Osers in 2003. Slightly handled. Signed By Translator. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition first printing octavo hardback green cloth gilt decoration and titles. top edge gilt. 72 pages + 4 pages of adverts Illustrated with 9 black and white plates by Aubrey Beardsley. Very Good condition No inscriptions.

Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Peter Forster (illustrator). 1st Edition. 45pp. One of a small series of letterpress editions produced by The Folio Society under the Folio Press imprint. With the author's preface. 11 colour illustrations by Peter Forster (6 full-page). Quarter blue cloth and watered crimson silk. A decorated title label pasted on the front cover; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; a fine copy with a fine transparent acetate dustwrapper.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good. See scans and description. New York: Maynard, Merrill, & Co., 1900. Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock" in the form of Maynard's English Classic Series, No. 55, With Explanatory Notes (J.W. Hales). Also with Critical Opinions (Mark Pattison). First Thus. 16mo, decorated cover, staple-bound wraps, viii + 5 through 56 pp. (as numbered; none are missing). Better than Very Good; some cover soil and of course underlying toning, otherwise just very light touches of perimeter wear. See scans. Handsome example. A collectible form of Pope's satirical mock-heroic narrative poem, in superior condition. lsmph.

[0-208-01633-3] 1979, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 291pp. Red leatherette. Includes side-by-side key to the contexts and to pope's text. The dust jacket has very minor edgewear. Based on the work of Alexander Pope--The Rape of the Lock. Publisher series: Contexts 2. (Poetry).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Limited edition, one of 160 copies printed, the text having been edited from the edition of 1714. Finely printed in red & black on thick (handmade?) paper. Gilt top edge, others untrimmed. 8vo, (9) + 26pp. + (8) blank leaves. Hardcover, bound in original navy blue cloth with gilt title to spine. In very good condition. Firm binding and clean, bright, interior. Small paper label to base of spine, otherwise no markings or signs of prior ownership. Covers show faint mottling to fore-edge and very minor shelf-wear or rubbing to corners amd spine ends. All in all, a lovely copy of a beautifully printed book. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION THUS. Cloth-bound, hardcover, octavo (26.5 x 19.5 x 1 cm.), pp. viii, 47, [1]. English text, with 9 illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth, gilt blocked with Beardsley design, gilt lettered spine, bevelled board edges, fore edge and bottom page edges rough cut, half-title, frontispiece with tissue guard, title-page printed in red and black. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Trivial bumping to spine ends and marks to covers. Interior well-preserved with a trace of light scattered foxing. Small tear to front endpaper. Without previous ownership markings. A handsome copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Beardsley, Aubrey. (illustrator). 1st Edition. London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. First edition. Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. xiii + 47pp. 4to. Teal cloth. Extensive gilt decoration on front cover. Gilt lettering on spine. 9 b/w illustrations, including frontispiece, by Beardsley. Deckled edges. Negligible foxing. Very minor creasing to front free endpaper. Front joint repaired. Boards very bright. Very good.

12mo. Mit 9 (7 ganzs.) Illustrationen v. Beardsley. 71 S., 2 Bl. OLdr. m. Goldprägung auf Deckel u. Rücken. Kopfgoldschnitt. Flowers of Parnassus X. - Kanten etw. berieben, Rücken verblichen. Vortitel gebräunt, sauberes u. schönes Ex. gr.

first edition thus limited numbered [75/75] 59pp [b/w frontis.w.rubricated title page] VG+ (in vellum wrappers w.gilt stamp to front cover and green ribbon ties to fore-edges,rubbed and stained w.some sl.surface losses,lacks upper ribbon tie from rear cover,covers bowed,printed on handmade paper,eps and edges sl.foxed o/w contents clean) published in an edition of 725,75 of which were printed on hand-made paper;this copy is [75/75].

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st thus. ~Quarter blue cloth, deep pink watered silk boards. Top edges gilt. No ownership marks. With original clear plastic dustwrapper. ~Robust packaging. Tracking can be added to overseas orders. Size: 44pp. 11 colour illus. 25 x 16cm.

1. Ed. 8° (= Flowers of Parnassus X). 71, 3 S. Ganzleder, goldgeprägt, leicht berieben, Exlibris am Innendeckel, sonst gut. Sprache: Englisch, With Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" One of the scarcer Folio Society editions; a First Printing. 6.5 x 10 inches. 45pp., bound in quarter blue cloth over pink silk with gilt stamped titles on the spine and a mounted paper label on the front cover. Top edge gilt; hand-marbled endpapers. Housed in the original plastic jacket. Illustrated in color by Peter Forster. Letterpress printed in Monotype Centaur on Mohawk Superfine paper. A Very Good copy with light cocking to the spine.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked vellum. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 59 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes; Limited edition - #12 of only 75 copies, printed on hand-made paper. Subject; English poetry 18th century. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley Published by Leonard Smithers, Arundel Street , London 1896 1st. edition thus, small quarto (265x200x14mm), original blue cloth, gilt blocked with Beardsley design, gilt lettered spine, slight wear to gilt, minor wear to caps, bevelled boards,slight browning on a few pages, nine drawings by Beardsley, two contemporary bookplates on front paste down and front free endpaper, a good copy. "It was at the suggestion of Edmund Gosse that Beardsley undertook to illustrate this poem. But he seldom illustrated anything literally: rather he made graphic comments on the text.which explains the use of the word 'embroidered' on the title page." from Beardsley by Brian Reade. Beardsley, a true original, an influence on (or should we say copied by) so many.

First Beardsley edition, ordinary issue, second state; [one of 500 copies]; 4to (257 x 188 mm.); frontispiece, 6 plates and 2 illustrations by Beardsley, plates on Japanese vellum with some browning, title printed in red & black, printer's woodcut device at end, occasional scattered foxing, some edges a little frayed; publisher's turquoise cloth with bevelled edges, blocked with gilt design by Beardsley to upper cover, lettered in gilt to spine, edges uncut, slight loss of colour down lower cover near joint, a little rubbed at extremities, but overall very good.xiii, 47pp The first of Smithers' major Beardsley publications, 'embroidered' as the title-page puts it, with nine pictures - eight lacy masterpieces utilising the artist's new 'dotted lines' approach, and possibly the most severely rococo cover design he ever drew. It was published in May 1896; in July Beardsley reported with delight to Smithers that the Morning Post's list of 'royal wedding presents' (for, presumably, the wedding of Princess Maud of Wales) included a copy of a book described as 'The Rape of the Lock, by Mrs Beardsley, illustrated by herself'. 'You see,' Beardsley commented, 'how widespread is the doubt as to my sex'. (Brophy, Beardsley and his world, p. 90). This copy has 'Leonard Smithers & Co. 1896' to the foot of spine, taken to indicate the second issue of five hundred copies that Smithers published that year, presumably to meet demand. Lasner 105; Gallatin 1033-42; V&A 511, 513; Zatlin 976-85.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. London: printed by Daniel Elzevir; and sold by William West; and T.J. Hookham, 1799, First Stodhart Illustrated Edition. Full morocco leather binding, with gilt titles and decoration to the spine, gilt decorated to both boards, 7 hand coloured plates with a hand coloured frontispiece of the author. At foot of titlepage: "Price seven shillings and sixpence with coloured plates; and five shillings plain". Scarce, British Library only records 3 copies internationally (Citation no. T5735) [2], xii, 75,[1]pp, 7 colour plates and a colour portrait frontispiece. Provenance: bookplate for Henry Lambert Carnagh to the front paste down. Approximately 4 ¼ inches tall. Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles and decoration. Joints good condition sound and solid. Corners good condition bumped and worn with minor rubbing. Boards good condition full leather, gilt decorated boards, gently marked and worn. Page edges good condition top edges slightly darkened, all gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition marbled, bookplate to the front. End papers good condition marbled. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned, small marks and minor foxing, colour plates. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1799 Binding: Hardback.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt blocked beveled boards, with Beardsley design, gilt lettered spine, slight rubbing to gilt & scattered foxing to some pages, but overall a nice bright copy. Presentation copy, Inscribed by the Publisher in the year of Publication on the front free endpaper. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Beardsley, Aubrey (illustrator). 1st Edition. 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).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. John Caryll had suggested to Pope that he write a poem about the incident in which Lord Petre had cut off a lock of Arabella Fermor's hair. While none of the characters were mentioned by name, charges of indecency were leveled against the poem, and Pope sought to make amends by undertaking to dedicate the second edition to Arabella Fermor herself. At this stage the poem was only 2 cantos long and the sylphs guarding Belinda had not been introduced. 8vo. 1st edition, 1st printing of Pope's RAPE OF THE LOCK. Frontispiece by E. Kirkall. Contemporary calf, rebacked preserving original spine, tips repaired. Some pencil writing to front and rear pastedowns. From collection of Abel E. Berland with ownership book plate to front pastedown. Some rubbing to joints, and edges. VG.

Haarlem, A. Loosjes, Pz., 1791, 1st ed., (4),49,(1),(1 publ.cat.) pag., engraved title, original green printed boards, 22,8 x 15 cm.= Rare first edition in nice original publisher's binding.

Paperback. Condition: Very good+ condition. First Italian edition. xv, [i] blank, 85 pages of text, followed by [i] page errata (corrections). Contemporary thick paper binding, with original ink hand titling and long-stitching visible on the spine. Top of spine with a small chip, and minor shelfwear and soiling. Complete with the half-title page. The text is wide-margined, and except for a minor stain and a loss of a few letters of type on pages 18-19, minor soiling/staining to a few page edges, and minimal foxing, the text is clean and unmarked. Page height measures 8 3/16 inches (214mm). First Italian edition of Pope's Rape of the Lock.

Condition: Very Good-. London: Printed by C. Bensley; for F.J. Du Roveray, 1798. First Bensley Edition. Octavo; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, spine elaborately tooled in calf, blue papier-peint endpapers; xxix,[1],79pp.; engrave frontispiece (tissue-guard) and five leaves of plates. Boards scuffed at extremities, front board rather crudely reattached, else a Very Good, internally clean and bright copy. Splendidly-illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's popular 1712 piece of high burlesque, boasting plates by multiple popular artists of the age, including Italian engraver Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) and English painter Thomas Holloway (1748-1827). ESTC T005736.