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The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift in 12 Volumes, Accurately Revised (24 Volumes)
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Item specifics
- Seller Notes
- “Good”
- Printing
- 2nd Printing thus
- Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Good
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Book Title
- The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift in 12 Volumes, Accurately
- Signed
- No
- Publisher
- C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, W. Strahan, B. Collins, Et Al.
- Subject
- Literature
- Place Published
- London, England
- Defects
- Second printing of the small Octavo Hawkesworth edition., Illustrated with copperplate illustrations. All volumes are, full leather with raised bands and gilt lines on each side of, the band. There is a thin leather (lighter brown) title adhered, to the second bands of each book, along with gilt numbers on, the third band down. The set is in Good only condition. Each, volume includes personalized bookplates - on the front, pastedown page: Lt. Col. L. Holwell (bookplate by Strongitharm, Sc. Dean St. Soho) , the other bookplate is on the front, endpaper: Luther A. Brewer of Cedar Rapids, IA - a more generic, plate). The first volume has split down the center of the text, block (vertically) and the front board is detached. About half, of the volumes have either detached front or rear hinges, or, have cracked hinges. The text pages are all clean and bright., "During his visits to England in these years, Swift published A, Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books (1704) and began to, gain a reputation as a writer. This led to close, lifelong, friendships with Alexander Pope, John Gay, and John Arbuthnot,, forming the core of the Martinus Scriblerus Club (founded in, 1713). Swift became increasingly active politically in these, years. Swift supported the Glorious Revolution and early in his, life belonged to the Whigs. As a member of the Anglican Church,, he feared a return of the Catholic monarchy and "Papist", absolutism. From 1707 to 1709 and again in 1710, Swift was in, London unsuccessfully urging upon the Whig administration of, Lord Godolphin the claims of the Irish clergy to the, First-Fruits and Twentieths ("Queen Anne's Bounty") , which, brought in about £2,500 a year, already granted to their, brethren in England. He found the opposition Tory leadership, more sympathetic to his cause, and, when they came to power in
- Year Printed
- 1766
- Original/Facsimile
- Original
- Publication Year
- 1766
- Format
- Hardcover
- Cover
- Leather
- Language
- English
- Special Attributes
- Collector's Edition
- Region
- united Kingdom
- Personalized
- No
- Topic
- Literature
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
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