The Rape of the Lock

No book-club edition of the 1714 exists. Circulating copies are modern reprints and illustrated re-issues; the most frequently misidentified is Aubrey Beardsley's illustrated edition (London: Leonard Smithers, 1896 — frontispiece and nine drawings, seven of them plates, with 37 copies on Japanese vellum of which 25 were for sale) and its very numerous later reprints, alongside Penguin, Oxford, Dover and print-on-demand facsimiles struck from ECCO scans. A copy with Beardsley's rococo line drawings is never the 1714; the 1714 plates are engravings by Du Bosc after Du Guernier.