On first publication, in Lintot's Miscellaneous Poems and Translation, by Various Hands (1712), the poem consisted of only two cantos. It was first published as a separate work, in its enlarged 5 canto form, in 1714. This version is the final form, which includes additional lines in Canto 5 on humour, and the introductory letter to Mrs. Arabella Fermor. [Based on Alexander Pope: A Bibliography, Volume 1, Part 1 (1922), by Reginald Harvey Griffith, pp.16-34.]
_-_0151.png)