COLLEY CIBBER AS DUNCE

The New Dunciad: as it was Found in the Year 1741. With the Illustrations of Scriblerus, and Notes Variorum.

London: Printed for T. Cooper ... 1742.

4to., pp. [8], 39, [1], with half-title; a fine copy, disbound.

£750

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First edition. This is the first printing of Book IV of the Dunciad. Having carried satire to the brink of prosecution, Pope retired into four years of silence, broken in 1742. A reference to Colley Cibber in line 316 inaugurated Pope’s last literary quarrel, and led to the revision of the whole poem with the sycophantic laureate Colley Cibber instead of Lewis Theobald as the mock hero, the king of the dunces. Foxon P787; Rothschild 1598; Griffith 546.

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