Three [of four] first editions of Pope’s “MORAL ESSAYS,” ethical poems inspired by Lord Bolingbroke’s enlightenment philosophy, individually described below.
The first of the moral essays to be published, Of Moral Taste (1731) is not included here. Each folio, bound in later marbled wrappers, the three pamphlets housed together in a folding blue cloth portfolio, gilt-stamped “Pope / Moral Essays” on the upper board All very good. a. OF THE..... More