This is the first edition of Epistle I. of the Essay on Man, which was published anonymously, and without any date on the title-page, Feb. 1733. It was also printed in quarto and octavo. The octavo has not the prefatory address "To the Reader." The right to print each epistle of the Essay on Man for one year was bought by Gilliver for 50_l_. an Epistle. * * * * * AN ESSAY ON MAN.--IN EPISTLES TO A FRIEND. Epistle I. Corrected by the Author. London, etc. Folio. The rest of the title-page is the same as in the first edition. This second edition has a table of Contents to the first three Epistles, which were originally published without the table. The fourth Epistle had the table prefixed from the outset. With the exception of the first Epistle, I am not aware that there was a second edition of any part of the Essay on Man till the whole was incorporated in the works of the poet. An octavo edition, published by WILFORD in 1736, is called the seventh; but he may have counted in the three sizes of the first edition, together with the editions which had appeared in Pope's works. * * * * * AN ESSAY ON MAN.--IN EPISTLES TO A FRIEND. Epistle II. London: Printed for J. WILFORD, at the Three Flower-de-luces, behind the Chapter-house, St. Paul's. Price one shilling. Folio. The second Epistle appeared about April, 1733. The title of the third and fourth Epistle is the same as that of the second. At the end of the third Epistle is this notice: "N.B. The rest of the work will be published the next winter," and the promise was kept by the publication of the fourth Epistle about the middle of January, 1734. The last three Epistles were printed like their precursor, in quarto and octavo, as well as folio. The octavo edition of all four Epistles differs from the rest in having the year on the title-page,--the first three, 1733, the fourth Epistle, 1734. * * * * * AN ESSAY ON MAN: BEING THE FIRST BOOK OF ETHIC EPISTLES. To H. ST. JOHN L. BOLINGBROKE. With the Commentary and Notes of W. WARBURTON, A.M. London: Printed by W. BOWYER for M. COOPER, at the Globe, in Paternoster-Row, 1743. 4to. This is the first edition with Warburton's Commentary, and the last which appeared during the life-time of Pope. The Essay on Criticism is in the same volume, which was kept back for some months after it was printed, and was not published till 1744.