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Volume 1. 340 pages. Front cover detached. Title page dated 1755. Tale of a Tub. Battle of the Books. 8 plates. Volume 2. 542 pages. dated 1754. Gulliver's Travels (which has a separate title page dated 1755). 9 plates, including maps. Volume 3. 411 pages. dated 1754. Merlin's Prophecy, Meditation on a Broomstick, Improving the English Tongue, and more misc. writings. Volume 4. 305 pages. dated 1754. Letters. Writings by Dr. Arbuthnot & Mr. Pope. Volume 5. 344 pages. dated 1754. History of John Bull. Writings by Dr. Arbuthnot and Mr. Gay. 4 plates. Volume 6. 307 pages. dated 1754. Cadenus & Vanessa; Baucis & Philemon; other Miscellanies in Verse. 2 plates. Volume 7. 430 pages. dated 1754. Poems and letters. 4 pages of music. Volume 8. 440 pages. dated 1754. Writings from the Examiner. Volume 9. 473 pages. dated 1754. Publick Spirit of the Whigs; Conduct of the Allies, misc writings. Volume 10. 438 pages. dated 1755. A proposal for the Universal use of Irish Manufacture. Letters. Misc writings. Volume 11. 374 pages. dated 1755. Tatler, Intelligencer, dialogues, misc. Volume 12. 383 pages. dated 1755. Rules for Servants, letters and more. Volume 13. printed in 1768 by W. Bowyer and others. 464 pages. Volume 14. printed in 1768 by W. Bowyer and others. 461 pages. Volume 15. printed in 1765 by W. Johnston and others. 486 pages. Volume 16. printed in 1765 by W. Johnston and others. 431 pages. Volume 17. printed in 1775 by W. Bowyer and others. 680 pages. Letters written by the Late Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin and Several of His Friends from the year 1710 to 1740, published from the originals. The following volumes from "The Letters…" edited by John Hawkesworth. Printed in London by T. Davies and others. 1769. Volume 18. (volume 1 of 'the letters'.) 396 pages. 1769. Volume 19. (volume 2 of 'the letters'.) 415 pages. 1769. Volume 20. (volume 3 of 'the letters'.) 419 pages. 1769. [A continuation of the Letters of… with a different editor, and which collects the letters from the years 1710-1742 (instead of 1710-1740). ] Collected and Revised by Deane Swift, of Goodrich, in Herefordshire. London. Printed for C. Bathurst (and several others). Volume 21. (volume 4 of 'the letters'.) 400 pages. 1768. Volume 22. (volume 5 of 'the letters'.) 416 pages. 1768. Volume 23. (volume 6 of 'the letters'.) 448 pages. 1768. Supplement to Swift's Works. by the Dean; Dr. Delany, Dr. Sheridan and Others. London. Printed for W. Bowyer and others. Volume 24. 695 pages. 1776 Jonathan Swift (1667 1745) is now best known for the high-school required reading version of Gulliver's Travels, as well as his brilliant political satire, "A Modest Proposal." His complete works, of which this is a very rare, complete, eighteenth century edition, contain a broader and deeper body of work. It includes contributions to literary journals of the day, pamphlets and correspondence, poetry and essays of satire and reform, occasional writing and more. His works were first collected in what has come to be known as the Hawkesworth edition in 1755 the first 12 volumes of this set are that Hawkesworth Edition. It was simultaneously published in a large-paper edition of 6 volumes. Over the next 25 years, individual volumes were reprinted as needed and new volumes were added to the series. 5 volumes of additional miscellaneous writings in the 1760s. 6 volumes of letters (this set includes 3 volumes from 1769 and 3 from 1768). Finally, in 1776, a supplement to the set. I have heard of a twenty-fifty volume but have never seen or heard of one for sale. The publication history of the Hawkesworth Swift's is complicated beyond my ability to decipher. A 1963 Bibliography of Swift's writings by Teerink describes all the printings of all the editions in great detail, but I don't have access to a copy of that book. I've listed all the publication dates of all the individual volumes above so that someone so inclined can puzzle it out on their own. In all, this set i.
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