{"id":2202,"date":"2015-11-03T20:42:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T20:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2015-11-27T12:30:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:30:50","slug":"ephemeral-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2015\/11\/03\/ephemeral-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Ephemeral surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/11\/Pope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2203\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/11\/Pope-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pope\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/11\/Pope-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/11\/Pope-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last week in preparing a presentation for prof. Barbara Benedict&#8217;s ENGL 364 class, one of the books I pulled was our copy of the first edition of Alexander Pope&#8217;s translation of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ctwweb.wesleyan.edu:7002\/vwebv\/holdingsInfo?bibId=525872\">Iliad<\/a> (London, 1715-20). Pasted onto one of the flyleaves was a bit of paper that made me (and prof. Benedict, when I showed it to her an hour later) gasp in disbelief and delight. Here we have what MUST be a rare survival&#8211;a subscription ticket in Pope&#8217;s own hand, signed, for receipt of partial payment by one of his subscribers (and Pope scholars will understand the significance of this particular subscriber as well).<\/p>\n<p>It was a great discovery of physical evidence, and allowed us to talk even more fully than we could have (using only the published subscriber&#8217;s list) about the ways in which Pope marketed, sold, and distributed the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in preparing a presentation for prof. Barbara Benedict&#8217;s ENGL 364 class, one of the books I pulled was our copy of the first edition of Alexander Pope&#8217;s translation of the Iliad (London, 1715-20). Pasted onto one of the flyleaves was a bit of paper that made me (and prof. Benedict, when I showed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}