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POPE, Alexander (1688-1744). Poet.
Printed Receipt Signed with autograph insertion, 1 page 8vo (oblong), no date. The receipt for two guineas, the first instalment for the translation of the Illiad, received from Lord Compton (name inserted by Pope).
A note in ink at the foot in a nineteenth-century hand gives the immediate provenance as [William] Upcott (1779-1845), whose enormous collections of autographs were variously dispersed during and after his lifetime.
[No: 4663]

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