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The Rape of the Lock: Embroidered with Eleven Drawings by Aubrey Beardsley
by Alexander Pope
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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Mourioux Vieilleville, France
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About This Item
Demy 16mo, pp. xix, 61; original red cloth gilt with a new cover-design by Beardsley; all edges gilt. The 'bijou' edition, with the cover-design to the 1896 edition here reproduced on the third page. - Spine a bit faded; light rubbing at the extreme spine ends; a good copy, one of thousand on art paper. - Gallatin p. 64; Reade and Dickinson 510; Lasner 105A.
Synopsis
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Capricedardour
(FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 286
- Title
- The Rape of the Lock
- Author
- Alexander Pope
- Illustrator
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1050 copies
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Leonard Smithers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1897
- Pages
- xix, 61
- Size
- Demy 16mo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Leonard Smithers - Beardsley - 1890s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books (first editions, illustrated, private press);
Terms of Sale
Capricedardour
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capricedardour
Biblio member since 2019
Mourioux Vieilleville
About Capricedardour
Books and prints (art, literature; 19th to 20th c.). Selling from a small private collection.
Glossary
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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