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
Publisher: [S. L. ] : J. Simon Publisher
Publication Date: 1979
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0934710007
ISBN 13: 9780934710008
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift.

London: printed for Charles Bathurst, 1739. [24],220p., plates; 12�

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