The Works . Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth

First Hawkesworth edition. Illustrated with one engraved frontispiece in first volume; 4 engraved plates of musical notation in the fourth volume; 25 engraved plates bound throughout set. Each volume is in two parts; each part, with the exception of vol. 1, pt. 1, has a separate title-page. 6 vols. 4to. The first six volumes of the collected works of Swift, a set that was eventually extended to 14 volume. Teerink-Scouten 87: ESTC T52755 Contemporary mottled calf, spines stamped in gilt, with a crimson and brown leather title labels, lightly worn, scattered blistering and scratches to covers, minor chipping to spine ends, minor worming at inner margin of several leaves in Vol. I; marbled edges. With armorial book-plate of Sir Thomas Miller, 5th Baronet of Chichester (1731-1816) on front paste-down of each volume, and armorial book-plate of his son, Thomas Miller Esq., 6th Baronet of Chichester (1781-1864), on title-page verso of second through sixth volumes Illustrated with one engraved frontispiece in first volume; 4 engraved plates of musical notation in the fourth volume; 25 engraved plates bound throughout set. Each volume is in two parts; each part, with the exception of vol. 1, pt. 1, has a separate title-page. 6 vols. 4to.…