The Works of Jonathan Swift. Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published, with Notes and a Life of the Author [COMPLETE IN 19 VOLUMES]
Published by Bickers & Son, London, 1883
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Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since February 4, 2000
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 1,750.00
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1/750 (out of series). Nineteen volumes, octavo (21.5 by 13.7 cm). Half titles; main titles in red and black; first volume with steel engraved frontispiece portrait. Publisher's navy blue polished calf, double ruled in gilt; gilt tooled spine with raised bands and morocco lettering pieces; marbled edges and endleaves. Covers rubbed with occasional mild scuffing; light wear at extremities, especially at the joints and spine caps (a few with skillful minor repairs); text faintly toned, else clean and fresh throughout. A very good set. Finely bound collected edition of the works of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). The publisher's limitation notes 750 numbered copies; our copy is unnumbered. Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D. (vol. 1); Journal to Stella, Letter I-XLII (vol. 2); Journal to Stella, Letter XLIII-LXV. Tracts, Political and Historical, prior to the Accession of George I. The Examiner (vol. 3); Tracts, Historical and Political, during the Reign of Queen Anne (vols. 4-5); Law Is a Bottomless Pit; or, The History of John Bull. Tracts Relative to Ireland. The Drapier's Letters (vol. 6); The Drapier's Letters (concluded). Miscellaneous Tracts upon Irish Affairs. Sermons (vol. 7); Sermons (continued). Tracts. Essays (vol. 8); Miscellaneous Essays (vol. 9); Tale of a Tub. Battle of the Books. Poems (vol. 10); Gulliver's Travels. Directions to Servants (vol. 11); volume 12.; Historical Tracts. Political Poetry. Poems Chiefly Relating to Irish Politics (vol. 12); Miscellanies, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, &c. Prose Miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan (vol. 13); Miscellaneous Poems (vol. 14); Poems, by Dr. Swift and His Friends. Epistolary Correspondence (vol. 15); Epistolary Correspondence. Index (vols. 16-19). Provenance: The armorial bookplate of Albert Julian Pell (1863-1916), Wilburton Manor, appears at the front pastedowns. A student at Winchester College, Pell went on take a degree in jurisprudence at Merton College, Oxford, in 1882 and served in the First World War as a major in the Suffolk Regiment.…
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- Title
- The Works of Jonathan Swift. Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, and Poems Not Hitherto Published, with Notes and a Life of the Author [COMPLETE IN 19 VOLUMES]
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan; Scott, Walter (ed.)
- Publisher
- Bickers & Son, London
- Publication year
- 1883
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Collected edition.
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ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB)
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