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Three early 18th century poems & a related work bound together, including Pope's The Rape of the Lock

Includes: [Amhurst, Nicholas]. Protestant Popery: or, the Convocation. A Poem. In Five Cantos. Address'd to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Bangor. [14], 5-74 + [2] ad pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Lord Bangor by Vander Gucht. 1st Ed. London: E. Curll, 1718. [bound with] Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock. An Heroi-Comical Poem. In Five Cantos. [8], 48 pp. With 6 copper-engraved plates by C. Du Bose after Lud. Du Guernier. 1st Separate Ed. London: Bernard Lintott, 1714. [bound with] Barnivelt, Esdras [i.e. Alexander Pope]. A Key to the Lock. Or, A Treatise, proving, beyond all Contradiction, the dangerous Tendency of a late Poem, entituled, The Rape of the Lock, to Government and Religion. 32 pp. London: J. Roberts, 1715. [bound with] Tassoni, Alessandro. La Secchia Rapita: The Trophy-Bucket. A Mock-Heroic Poem, the First of Its Kind?. Done from the Italian into English Rhime, by Mr. Ozell. [3]-58 pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece. 1st Ed. in English? London: J.D. for Egbert Sanger, 1710. Together 4 works bound together. (8vo) 7½x4¼, old calf.

Pope's The Rape of the Lock is the first separate edition, and the first edition in the enlarge five-canto form; it first appeared in "Miscellaneous poems and translations, by several hands," published by Lintott in 1712. With the small leather booklabel of Peter Murray Hill on front pastedown.