ADVERTISEMENT on this new Edition. English Literature having found these many years ago, so much lovers in Germany and the adjacent countries, I doubt not, the defign i have form'd to print neat Pocket Editions of the English Classical Writers, will be very acceptable to the learned world. I thought beft, to begin my Task with the Edition of Mr. POPE'S Works, this Author being so universally esteemed by all those that have any tafte of Poetry or Learning. All care poffible has been taken to have this Edition correct as well, as neat, and, I hope, with so good a success, that the Reader will find but very few faults, that are of any Consequence. This Edition is more complet as the English Pocket Editions, for it is printed on Mr. WARBURTON'S Edition in Great Octavo:, and contains all his Notes and Commentaries. Yet in the English little Editions the Commentaries are left out. If this first Commencement should not wholly difplease to the lovers of English Literature. The Editions of the Works of MILΤΟΝ, ADDISON, THOMPSON, SHAKESPEARE, YOUNG, PRIOR AKENSIDE, and other classical English Writers shall follow immediatly the Edition of Mr. POPE'S Works, and shall be printed with the fame neatness and correctness, adorned too with curious cuts done by the beft hands. Berlin, May 3th. 1762. boog ja ADVERTISEMENT. M R. POPE, in his last illness, amused himself, amidst the care of his higher concerns, in preparing a corrected and complete Edition of his Writings; and, with his usual delicacy, was even folicitous to prevent any share of the offence they might occasion, from falling on the Friend whom he had engaged to give them to the Public . " I own the late encroachments upon my con"stitution make me willing to fee the end of ali "further care about me or my works. I would rest " for the one in a full refignation of my being to "be disposed of by the Father of all Mercy; and " for the other (though indeed a trifle, yet a trifle may be some example) I would commit them to "the candor of a sensible and reflecting judge, rather than to the malice of every short-fighted and malevolent critic, or inadvertent and cenforious Reader. And no hand can fet them in so good a light, &c." Let. cxx. to Mr. W. 46 b" I also give and bequeath to the said Mr. "Warburton, the property of all fuch of my Works already printed as he hath written or shall write "Commentaries or Notes upon, and which I have VOL. I. 2 V In difcharge of this truft, the Public has here a complete Edition of his Works; executed in fuch a manner, as, I am perfuaded, would have been to his fatisfaction. The Editor hath not, for the fake of profit, fuffered the Author's Name to be made cheap by a Subscription; nor his Works to be defrauded of their due Honours by a vulgar or inelegant Impreffion; nor his memory to be disgraced by any pieces unworthy of his talents or On the contrary, he hath, at a very great expence, ornamented this Edition with all the advantages which the best Artists in Paper, Printing, and Sculpture could bestow upon it. virtue. If the Public hath waited longer than the deference due to it should have fuffered, it was reason which the Editor need not owing to make a secret. It was his regard to the familyinterests of his deceased Friend. Mr. Pope, at his death, left large impreffions of several parts not otherwife disposed of or alienated; and as he fhall publish "TIONS." WITHOUT FUTURE ALTERA His Last Will and Testament. |