A collection of Manuscript Letters and documents relating to a case of publishing piracy involving Alexander Pope

Item date: 1737 - 38
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 5,000
Item date acquired: 1988
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

In the Autumn of 1837 Pope discovered that James Watson had published an octavo edition of his Letters of Mr Pope and several of his Friends under the piratical imprint of Thomas Johnson at The Hague. These papers have to do with the resulting negotiations as Pope immediately filed a bill in Chancery against Watson, who was eventually compelled to deliver the whole impression to Robert Dodsley, Popes publisher