{"id":243,"date":"2010-06-10T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.wordpress.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2010-06-10T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T14:30:43","slug":"three-books-from-alexander-popes-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2010\/06\/10\/three-books-from-alexander-popes-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Three books from Alexander Pope’s library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While checking the special collections provenance file, three books owned by Alexander Pope were identified in our collections, in addition to the presentation copies of his collected letters that he inscribed to William Oliver.\u00a0 The Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s provenance file provides a wealth of information about notable former owners of the books in our collection.\u00a0 Former owners’ autographs and bookplates are noted, as well as donor information for gift acquisitions.\u00a0 Unfortunately this information is often not available through online catalog records, so researchers interested in a particular author or historical figure should ask to consult the provenance file when doing research in the RBML.<\/p>\n

720.9 F33r 1706<\/a> is a collection of three French works on architecture, art and sculpture, all published in 1706 and written by Andre Felibien (1619-1695) and J.-F. Felibien des Avaux (1658?-1733).\u00a0 Alexander Pope\u2019s ownership inscription appears on the title page of the first work in the volume. This work is number 62 in \u201cA finding list of books surviving from Pope\u2019s library with a few that may not have survived,\u201d published in Maynard Mack\u2019s Collected in himself: essays critical, biographical, and bibliographical on Pope and some of his contemporaries<\/em><\/a> (Newark : University of Delaware Press, 1982)<\/p>\n

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Q. 822 D84 v.1-2 cop.3<\/a> is a copy of John Dryden\u2019s Comedies, tragedies, and operas<\/em> (1701). \u00a0John Dryden (1631-1700) is considered to be a major influence on Pope\u2019s work.\u00a0 Alexander Pope\u2019s ownership inscription appears on the title page of the second volume and there are several manuscript notes in Pope\u2019s hand throughout the text.\u00a0 This work is number 60 in Mack\u2019s \u201cA finding list\u201d and is discussed in R.D. Erlich and James Harner, \u201cPope\u2019s Annotations in His Copy of Dryden\u2019s Comedies, Tragedies, and Operas,\u201d in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research<\/em><\/a> 10 (1971): 14-24.<\/p>\n

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821 L29p<\/a> is a copy of George Granville\u2019s Poems upon several occasions<\/em> (1712).\u00a0 Alexander Pope\u2019s ownership inscription appears on the front fly-leaf and indicates that it was given to him by the author, one of Pope\u2019s patrons.\u00a0 George Granville, Baron Lansdowne (1666-1735) was a Jacobite politician and also a poet and playwright.\u00a0 Granville\u2019s most notable plays, The She Gallants<\/em>, The Jew of Venice<\/em>, and The British Enchanters<\/em>, were all influenced by the work of his friend John Dryden.\u00a0 Granville also wrote poetry in the style of Edmund Waller.\u00a0 Poems upon several occasions<\/em> collects together many of these poems as well as the musical play The British Enchanters<\/em>, his most notable literary success.\u00a0 Granville and Pope both promoted and supported each other\u2019s work. For more information on George Granville and his relationship to Alexander Pope, see Eveline Cruickshanks, \u2018Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne and Jacobite duke of Albemarle (1666\u20131735)\u2019, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography<\/em>, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online ed., Jan 2008 [http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/11301<\/a>].\u00a0 This work is number 71 in Mack\u2019s \u201cA finding list.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thank you to Dr. David Vander Meulen, who pointed me to the references to Maynard Mack\u2019s Collected in Himself<\/em> and the journal article on Pope\u2019s copy of Dryden. AD<\/strong><\/p>\n

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While checking the special collections provenance file, three books owned by Alexander Pope were identified in our collections, in addition to the presentation copies of his collected letters that he inscribed to William Oliver.\u00a0 The Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s provenance file provides a wealth of information about notable former owners of the books in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[45,119,126,161],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad","category-inscriptions","tag-alexander-pope","tag-felibien","tag-george-granville","tag-john-dryden"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}