Rare thick paper copy
WARTON, Thomas. The Life of Sir Thomas Pope, Founder of Trinity College, Oxford. Chiefly compiled from original Evidences. With an Appendix of Papers, never before printed. London: T. Davies et al.~i~ 1772.
8vo. Contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine with red morocco lettering-piece; pp. xii, 438, [4, 'Additions and Corrections']; wear to extremities, endpapers a little foxed with offsetting to adjacent pages, otherwise very good.
Rare first edition, 'thick paper copy' as described by the V&A.
The poet and historian Thomas Warton, a lifelong friend of Samuel Johnson, studied, researched and taught at Trinity from 1744 to his death in 1790, thus best placed to write the first full-length biography of the college's founder.
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