A Tale of a Tub : Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind & the Battle of the Books : an Account of a Battle between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James Library / Jonathan Swift ; with Twelve Plates by William Hogarth
Language: English
Published by [S. L. ] : J. Simon Publisher, 1979
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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An exceptional copy; fine in the original gilt-blocked, two-tone cloth. Complete with a fine, stiff-card slipcase. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. ; 205 pages; Description: xvi, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Thus. 1 Kg.
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- Title
- A Tale of a Tub : Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind & the Battle of the Books : an Account of a Battle between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James Library / Jonathan Swift ; with Twelve Plates by William Hogarth
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
- Publisher
- [S. L. ] : J. Simon Publisher
- Publication year
- 1979
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0934710007
- ISBN 13
- 9780934710008
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 1 kilogram
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library
T049836
Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift.
London: printed for Charles Bathurst, 1739. [24],220p., plates; 12�
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