well it does for auctioneers, obviously. With each lot, we hope that it will fly, and are disappointed for those that fall back to earth! This book, though, is bound to live up to our hopes.
Alexander Pope shared with Shakespeare, the ability to create phrases that have stood the test of time. This particular set is the the first complete edition of one of the greatest poetical achievements in English – original of the phrase ‘Hope springs eternal’
The work is “an Essay on Man” and this auction lot contains Epistles I-IV.
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