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Men playing draughts in Button's coffee-house ca. 1720 Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.

Poets: twenty portraits of writers. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Men playing draughts in Button's Coffee-House, London, ca. 1720. Aquatint by S. Ireland after W. Hogarth.

A servant preventing a messenger from delivering some letters to two weary men seated at a table (Alexander Pope and John Arbuthnot). Etching by C. Grignion, ca. 1787, after F. Hayman.

Alexander Pope. Mezzotint after Sir Godfrey Kneller.

Pope's printer, John Wright : a preliminary study / J. McLaverty.

"This long disease, my life" : Alexander Pope and the sciences / by Marjorie Nicolson and G.S. Rousseau.

Imagining monsters : miscreations of the self in eighteenth-century England / Dennis Todd.

Pope's literary legacy : the book-trade correspondence of William Warburton and John Knapton with other letters and documents 1744-1780 / edited by Donald W. Nichol.

James Graham lecturing from a podium, to a crowd of ladies and gentlemen. Etching by J. Boyne, 1783.

Cromwell Mortimer. Line engraving by J. Rigaud.

A woman (May) leads a man (January) under a tree in which there is somone hiding and some onlookers are pointing at the scene. Engraving by C. Mosley after S. Wale.

Science: putti undertaking various experiments in an open temple or rotunda, presided over by Scientia. Engraving, c.1750.

The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

The poems of Alexander Pope / edited by John Butt.

Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus / [John Arbuthnot].

An essay on criticism / Written by Mr. Pope.

The works of Alexander Pope, esq. with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To which are added a new life of the author, an estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks / by William Roscoe. Esq.

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Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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The figure of a man divided in two parts: a skeleton and a well-dressed gentleman. Engraving by V. Green, 1769, after himself.

The poems of Alexander Pope / edited by John Butt.

Memoirs of the extraordinary life, works, and discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus / [John Arbuthnot].

An essay on criticism / Written by Mr. Pope.

The works of Alexander Pope, esq. with notes and illustrations by himself and others. To which are added a new life of the author, an estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks / by William Roscoe. Esq.