The Dunciad
Subtitle: with notes variorum and the prolegomena of Scriblerus
Contributors: Gilliver, Lawton, bookseller; Samuel Johnson and William Samuel Johnson Libraries (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Edition: The second edition, with some additional notes.
Publisher: Printed for Lawton Gilliver at Homer's Head, against St. Dunstan's Church, Fleetstreet
Published: 1729
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: English poetry; Early works to 1800
Notes: Published anonymously; author attribution from ESTC.

Frontispiece illustration ([A]1v), with motto: "Deferor in vicum, Vendentem thus et odores"; title in red and black; tail-pieces.

"A letter to the publisher" (p. 9-22)--signed "William Cleland" is by Pope himself.

Errata on pages 1-6 after p. 232.

Includes index.

Rare Book (Johnson) copy: Frontispiece lacking. "Second" variant d.--Cf. Griffith 227. Copy includes single errata leaf and is otherwise like variant b.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), T5550

Foxon, D.F. English verse, 1701-1750, P781

Griffith, R.H. Alexander Pope, 224-7

Vander Meulen, D.L., "Pope's revisions during printing: A variant section in The Dunciad", Modern Philology, 78

Gift; Geraldine Carmalt Estate; 1968.