A CATALOGUE OF THE Surreptitious and Incorrect Editions of Mr. POPE'S LETTERS. I. AMILIAR LETTERS to Henry Cromwell, mund Curll, 1727. [In this are Verses, &c. afcribed to Mr. P. which were not his.] II. Mr. Pope's Literary Correfpondence for thirty years: from 1704 to 1754. Being a Collection of Letters which paffed between him and several eminent perfons. Printed for E. Curll, 8°, 1735, Two editions. -The fame in duodecimo, with cuts. The third edition. [These contain feveral Letters not genuine.] III. Mr. Pope's Literary Correfpondence, Vol. II. Printed for the fame, 8°, 1735. [In this volume are no Letters of Mr. Pope's, but a few of thofe to Mr. Cromwell reprinted; nor any to him, but one faid to be Bishop Atterbury's, and another in that Bishop's name, certainly not his : One or two Letters from St. Omer's, advertized of Mr. Pope, but which proved to be only concerning him; fome scandalous Reflections of one Le Neve on the Legiflature, Courts of Juftice, and Church of England, pag. 116, 117. and the Divinity of Chrift exprefly denied, in pag. 123, 124. With fome fcandalous Anecdotes, and a Narrative.] -The fame in duodecimo. IV. Mr. Pope's Literary Correfpondence, Vol. III. Printed for E. Curll, 8°, 1735. [In this is only one Letter by Mr. Pope to the Duchefs of Buckingham, which the publisher fome way procured and printed against her order. It also contains four Letters, entitled, Mr. Pope's to Mifs Blount, which are literally taken from an old tranflation of Voiture's to Mad. Rambouillet.] -The fame in duodecimo. V. Mr. Pope's Literary Correfpondence, Vol. IV. Printed by the fame, contains not one Letter of this Author. The fame in duodecimo. VI. Mr. Pope's Literary Correfpondence, Vol. V. containing only one Letter of Mr. P. and another of the Lord B. with a fcandalous preface of Surreptitious and Incorrect Editions, &c. ix Curll's, how he could come at more of their Letters, 8°, printed for the fame, 1736. VII. Letters of Mr. Pope and feveral Eminent Perfons, Vol. I. from 1705 to 1711. Printed and fold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 80, 1735. -The fame Vol. II. from 1711, &c. Printed and fold by the bookfellers of London and Weftminfter, 8°, 1735.-The fame in 12mo, with a Narrative. VIII. Letters of Mr. Pope and feveral Eminent Perfons. From 1705 to 1735. Printed and fold by the bookfellers of London and Westminster, 12mo, 1735. [This edition is faid in the title to contain more Letters than any other, but contains only Two, faid to be the Bishop of Rochester's, and printed before by Curll.] IX. Letters of Mr. Pope and several Eminent Perfons. From the year 1705 to 1735. Vol. I. and Vol. II. Printed for T. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-nofter Row, 1735, 12mo. [In this was inferted the Forged Letter from the Bishop of Rochefter, and fome other things, unknown to Mr. Pope.] Prefixed to the First Genuine Edition in quarto, 1737. I F what is here offered the reader, should happen in any degree to please him, the thanks are not due to the author, but partly to his friends, and partly to his enemies: it was wholly owing to the affection of the former, that fo many Letters, of which he never kept copies, were preferv'd; and to the malice of the latter, that they were produced in this manner. He had been very difagreeably used, in the publication of fome Letters written in his youth, which fell into the hands of a woman who printed them, without his or his correfpondent's confent, in 1727. This treatment, and the apprehenfion of more of the fame kind, put him upon recalling as many as he could from those who he imagined had kept any. He was forry to find the number fo great, but immediately leffened it by burning three parts in four of them the reft he spared, not in any preference of their style or writing, but merely as they preferv'd the memory of fome friendships which will ever be dear to him, or fet in a true light fome matters of : 4 |