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Excerpt from A Catalogue of Marshall C. Lefferts's Great Collection of First and Later Editions of the Works of Alexander Pope: With the Autograph Manuscript of an Essay on Man
There is another edition (the second, Thoms' printed from the same setting of type as this but with this and a few other errors corrected. The forms have been rearranged to print as a 12mo, the signatures being in sixes. At the end (p. Is an advertisement of The Progress of Dulness. This edition we may call 1a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.