Volume I.

London: Printed [by Edmund Curll] in the Year, 1727. Price 5s.

(II.) Miscellanea. The Second Volume.

I. An Essay upon Gibing. With a Project for its Improvement.

II. The Praise of Women. Done out of French.

III. An Essay on the Mischief of giving Fortunes with Women in Marriage.

IV. Swifteana: Or Poems by Dean Swift, and several of his Friends.

V. Laus Ululae. The Praise of Owls. Translated from the Latin, By a Canary Bird.

London: Printed in the Year, 1727. _12mo, two volumes, original calf._

First authentic edition of Pope's Letters. The work was advertised in _The Daily Post_ of August 12, 1726; the date 1727 on the title is merely a device "to protract a little longer the semblance of novelty."

Portrait of Pope by Clark and Pine in Volume I, and of Swift by Vertue in Volume II.

POPE AND SWIFT.--(I.) Miscellanies in prose and verse. The first volume. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, . . . M. DCC. XXVII. (II.) Miscellanies. The second volume. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte . . . M DCC XX VII. (III.) Miscellanies. The third volume. London: Printed for Benj. Motte . . . , and Lawton Gilliver . . . 1732. (IV.) Miscellanies. The last volume. London: Printed for B. Motte, . . . 1727. _8vo, four volumes, sprinkled calf, gilt back._

First edition of Volumes I, II, and IV; second of Volume III.

The Preface is dated Twickenham, May 27, 1727, and signed "Jonath. Swift. Alex. Pope." The Postscript following does not occur in the 12mo edition: "P. S. We could not resist the Opportunity of improving this Collection with two or three Pieces on parallel Subjects, written by Persons of great Distinction, our particular Friends, for which the Publick ought to thank us, and with which it was in the Power of none but our selves to have obliged them."