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’Battel’ and the ’Discourse’ have separate titles, pagination and register
continuous. An uncommon edition of Swift”s famous satire on religious
dogmatism. It is said that he remarked in his old age “God, what a
genius I had when I wrote that book!”
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
SPENCE (Joseph).
An essay on Mr.
Pope’s Odyssey. In five dialogues. The second edition.
London:
Printed for S. Wilmot, bookseller in Oxford: and sold byS. [sic] Birt …
and T. Longman,
1737. With an attractive frontispiece engraved
by Pine after Gravelot, pages (10), 374, (12), large 12mo,
contemporary calf, with label, gilt: a fine copy.
Rothschild 1941. Probably as a result of this work, Spence was
appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford. It brought him the friendship
of Pope. As Johnson observed, in Spence “Pope had the first experience
of a critick without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to
display beauties as expose faults; who censured with respect, and praised
with alacrity”.
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€120-€180 (£96-£144 approx.)
1329. [SWIFT (Jonathan)]. Fraud Detected: or, The
Hibernian Patriot. Containing, all the Drapier’s Letters to the
People of Ireland, on Wood’s Coinage, &c. Interspersed with
the following particulars, viz. I. The Addresses of the Lords
and Commons of Ireland, against Wood’s Coin. II, His
Majesty’s answer … III. The Report of his Majesty’s most
honourable Privy Council. IV. Seasonable Advice to the
Grand Jury. V. Extracts of the Votes of the House of
Commons of England, upon breaking a Grand Jury. VI.
Considerations on the Attempts, made to pass Wood’s Coin.
VII. Reasons, shewing the Necessity the People of Ireland are
under, to refuse Wood’s Coinage. To which are added,
Prometheus. A Poem. Also a new Poem to the Drapier; and
the Songs Sung at the Drapier’s Club in Truck Street, Dublin,
never before printed. With a Preface, explaining the
Usefulness of the Whole.
Dublin: Re-printed and sold by George
Faulkner in Pembroke-Court, Castle-street,
1725
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, pp (2), vi, 7 - 14; 222, (2),
with signature Dd in corrected state, small 8vo, contemporary
unlettered panelled calf: a completely unsophisticated and
very good to nice copy.
“Our Irish Copper-Farthen Dean”. Teerink 21. Rothschild 2094.
Hanson 3483. Goldsmiths’ 6396. A landmark of Irish patriotism.
The first collected edition of the Drapier’s Letters, the collective
name for a series of seven pamphlets written between 1724 and 1725
by Swift, to arouse public opinion in Ireland against the imposition
of a privately minted copper coinage which Swift believed to be of
inferior quality. The London edition followed some five years later.
€1,200-€1,500 (£960-£1,200 approx.)
1330
.
SWIFT (Jonathan).
Letters to and from Dr. J. Swift, D. S.
P. D. from the year 1714, to 1738
Dublin: Printed by and for George
Faulkner.
1741
Pages (12),256; (3), (1, blank),22, complete with the preliminary
advertisement leaf, 12mo, contemporary calf, expertly and
sympathetically rebacked, with attractive label, gilt: a fresh and
very attractive copy.
Teerink 64 – the original, separate edition, with “Some Free Thoughts
upon the Present State of Affairs” with a separate titlepage and
pagination but continuous signatures.
€180-€250 (£144-£200 approx.)
1331. SWIFT (Jonathan). Miscellanies in prose and verse. In
two volumes. To which are added Several Poems, and other
curious tracts not in any former impression. The third edition.
[Dublin:] London printed, and re-printed in Dublin, by and
for Sam. Fairbrother, 1732 [with:] Miscellanies in prose and
verse. The third volume. To which are added several poems,
and other curious tracts not in the English edition. The
second edition. [Dublin:] London printed, and re-printed in
Dublin, by and for Sam. Fairbrother, 1733. [and:] Vol. IV. of
the Miscellanies begun by Jonathan Swift, D. D. and
Alexander Pope, Esq. Containing all the tracts in prose and
verse that have been since done by J. S. D. D. D. S. P. D. to
compleat the three former volumes. To which are added
several other poems by the same author, many of which are
printed from original manuscripts, not in any former edition.
Dublin: Printed by and for Samuel Fairbrother, 1735. 1732-32-
33-35
Pages viii, (2), 372, (2, adverts): (6), 140, (2); (2),207, (3): (2),
ii, 199; (2), 128, (2): (9), iii, 119; (2),214, 4 vols, large 12mo,
contemporary calf-backed boards, with red labels, gilt: some
wear to paper sides, but, on the whole, a very good and quite
attractive unsophisticated set, with the armorial bookplate of
Thomas Greene, signed by him, in each volume.
Teerink-Scouten 33(2a), 33(3) and 33(4). ESTC on-line locates 8,
10 and 4 copies, respectively, with only Cambridge credited with
having a complete set of all four volumes. The fourth volume
contains one genuine piece here first printed: “Ode to the King, On
his Irish Expedition, &c. 1691”.
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€1,000-€1,500 (£800-£1,200 approx.)
1332. SWIFT (Jonathan). The Works of J. S, D. D, D. S. P. D.
in six volumes. Containing … Dublin: Printed for George
Faulkner, 1738-37-38-38-38-38. [with:] [Vol. VII] Letters to
and from Dr. J. Swift, D. S. P. D. from the year 1714, to 1738.
To which are added, several notes and translations not in the
London edition. Dublin: Printed by and for George Faulkner,
1741. [and:] Volume VIII. Of the author’s works, containing
Directions to servants; and other pieces in prose and verse,
published in his life-time; with several poems, letters, and
other pieces never before printed. Dublin: Printed by and for
George Faulkner. 1738-37-38-38-38-38-41-46
With 9 engraved portraits, maps and plans, and 2 engraved
leaves of music, pp (25),205,208-318, bound without leaves
X5-6 but with the 15-pp subscriber list: (8), 392: (4), viii, (8),
382, (2, blank): viii, (2), ii, 372: (8), 338 (misnumbered 328),
(10): (4), 386, bound without the final blank leaf: (2, adverts),
(14), 300; (4), 32: (14), viii, (2), ii,21, together 8 vols, 8vo,
uniform contemporary calf, gilt bordered sides, fully and
richly gilt spines, with dark red labels, gilt: a little wear on
boards, but all volumes sound and strong and quite attractive,
internally in nice, unpressed state, with the contemporary
signature of Thomas Greene on the title-page of volume
three.
Teerink-Scouten 42, 62B and 44. Vol 8 is without the 3-pp
dedication to Chesterfield and combines some of the points of both
first and second issues. The first leaf of the subscriber list is signed
“Vol. 1. * Rt. “ and the fifth leaf “Vol. V. Rt-” and an inverted
triangle of three asterisks. The later pages of vol six are in the state
with pictorial headpieces. Swift’s will in vol 8 extends to 8-pp. An
attractive, unsophisticated set of an edition of considerable, and
still disputed, importance for the history of the text.
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€1,500-€1,800 (£1,200-£1,440 approx.)
1332A
.
[SWIFT (Jonathan, oft ascribed to]
PUFF-INDORST
(Fartinando), pseudor, The benefit of farting explain’d: the
fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair-sex,
enquired into. Proving à Posteriori most of the Dis-ordures in-
tail’d upon them, are owing to Flatulencies not seasonably
vented. Wrote in Spanish by Don Fartinando Puff-indorst
Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow. And
Translated into English at the Request, and for the Use, of the
Lady Damp-fart of Her-fart-shire. By Obadiah Fizzle, Groom of
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