POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE. EDITED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS. Ellustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOLUME II. LONDON: NATHANIEL COOKE, (LATE INGRAM, COOKE, AND CO.) MILFORD HOUSE, STRAND. 280.9.185. ADVERTISEMENT. SINCE the publication of the first volume of this work, the Editor has ascertained the house in Lombard Street in which Pope was born. Spence states, that it was afterwards [A. D. 1739] occupied by one Mr. Morgan, an apothecary. It would seem to have been continued as an apothecary's or druggist's shop. The following note from Samuel Sharpe, Esq., author of the "History of Egypt,” addressed to Dr. Beattie, with reference to this edition of Pope, determines the point : "The house which, by the tradition of its inmates, claims the honour of being Pope's birth-place, is at the bottom of Plough Court, and faces you as you enter the passage from Lombard Street. It has been for several generations an eminent druggist's shop. It belonged to the well-known William Allen, and he succeeded a Mr. Bevan. The present owners say that Mr. Bevan used to relate, that in his childhood the house was often visited by persons who came there out of curiosity to see the birth-place of the great poet. Mr. Bevan's memory, were he living, would reach back much above a hundred years." A view of this house has been engraved, as a vignette illustration to the title-page of the present volume. The Editor has also received from Sir Edward F. Brom |