Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros

Date:
1922
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/14
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 423: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Swift (Jonathan)—continued. BOUND FOR THE DAUPHIN OF FRANCE. 2073 Works. Containing:— I. The Author’s Miscellanies in Prose. Il. His Poetical Writings. lhe he sUravels-ot Captain. wemuelGullver; IV. His Papers relating to Ireland, consisting of several Treatises; among which are, The Drapier’ s Letters to the People of Ireland against receiving Wood’s Half-pence; Also, two Original Drapier’s Letters, never before published. In this Edition are great Alterations and Additions; and likewise many Pieces in each Volume, never before published. Engraved portraits of Swift, and illustrations in Gulliver's Travels, aes A LARGE AND THICK PAPER COPY OF THE SURREPTITIOUSLY ‘PRINTED FIRST EDITION. 4 vols., royal 8vo, zz contemporary crimson morocco, gold lines on sides, and gold corner ornaments, with a crowned dauphin repeated twice in each angle, gilt edges. Dublin, Printed by and for George Faulkner, 1735. £25 *** This is the copy bound for presentation to the eldest son of the reigning French Monarch. 2074 SWIFT (Dean) and POPE (Alexander). Muiscellanies in Prose and Verse (by Swift and Pope. Preface, signed and dated Twickenham, May 27th, Da 3 vols., panelled calf, gilt. Lonaon, B. Motte, 1727. £3 160s Added to the preface is this Postscript :—‘‘ We could not resist the opportunity of improving this collection with two or three pieces on parallel subjects, written by persons of great distinction, our particular friends, for which the public ought to thank us, and with which it was in the power of none but ourselves to have obliged them.’ 2075 -__—— Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. 3 vols., 8vo. London, Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727. Gulliveriana; or, a Fourth Volume of Miscellanies. Being a Sequel of the Three Volumes, published by Pope and Swift. To which is added, ALEXANDERIANA; or, A Comparison between the Ecclesiastical and ae Pope. And many Things, in Verse and Prose, relating to the acter: With an ample Preface; and Critique on the Third Volume of Mis- cellanies lately publish’d by those two facetious Writers. Weth frontispiece. LOHL OME FITICd) | 27 2) se COOETIS. 1 720. Together 4 vols., 8vo, o7zgznal calf. £4 10s ** * “Tn the course of these three years the Dean had some other literary encounters.