The Library has acquired by anonymous gift the collection of first and later editions of the works of Alexander Pope, which was accumulated by Mr. Marshall C. Lefferts, of Brooklyn, N. Y. The collection contains nearly five hundred volumes, of which 82 are Popeana. There are several editions of the author's works, all but a very few published during the eighteenth century. There are also several volumes of miscellanies, to which Pope contributed.
The most valuable items in the collection, however, are the various editions of Pope's poems and letters, there being first editions of Pope's poems, twenty-two editions of "The Eassy on Man," and twenty-six of "The Dunciad," many of them being extremely rare. This is probably the most important collection of Pope's works that has been brought together; and it makes the Harvard Library unrivalled in its collection of early eighteenth century English literature.
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