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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1900. Undated, ca. 1900. About a third of the book is devoted to Gulliver, the rest consisting of brief stories and some informational non-fiction. illustrated with engravings throughout. Pictorial golden tan cloth printed in black and red, no dustjacket, possibly as issued. Spine head a bit frayed with additional rubbing to the corners and spine foot, binding sound, pages clean, no names or other markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

No date, circa 1797, 1798, London, printed for C. Cooke, Cooke's edition, pp216, three engraved plates, contemporary full calf. Hinges cracked but holding, very rubbed, internally good.

A substantial volume of political, legal, and ecclesiastical tracts, a coherent archive of Irish High-Church and Tory pamphleteering from the decades in which Swift was politically active, including several items relating to controversies in which he was directly or indirectly engaged. The latest piece included is the rare first edition of Swift's 1730 broadside mocking the Reverend Thomas Sawbridge. In the Ballad, Swift satirizes Sawbridge, Dean of Ferns, who was accused in June 1730 of raping Susanna Runcard. Following a trial later in the same month, Sawbridge was acquitted, according to Swift, because "he bought her off", with no effect on his deanship. Swift uses the dean's actions to comment on the broader English ecclesiastical elite and their sense of impunity in Ireland. Two works by members of Swift's Dublin-London literary network are William Congreve's The Mourning Muse of Alexis (1695) and William King's The Fairy Feast (1704), the latter attributed to Swift in its title. Also included is the defence of Swift's friend Bishop Atterbury against the pains and penalties imposed on him. Six items relate directly to the Irish Toleration controversy of the 1690s, in which High-Church Anglicans opposed concessions to Presbyterian dissenters. Five relate to Church of Ireland institutional politics. Others cluster around the Irish Tory ascendancy during Swift's most active political years (1710-14), including the 1713 Dublin election disturbances. The R------r's S----ch Explain'd (Dublin, 1711), a parody of a speech made by Foster, a Whig Recorder of Dublin, welcoming the Duke of Ormonde, has been attributed by Scott to Swift. One undated pamphlet, Reasons humbly presented to the High Court of Parliament for supplying the want of Money in Ireland, falls squarely in Swift territory. Six pamphlets relate to the great Tory-Whig dispute over continuing the War of the Spanish Succession and maintaining the army. The span of publications corresponds closely to Swift's career from ordination (1695), rise in church politics (1695-1700), London political career (1710-13), and Irish patriot phase (1720s). Most of the items are held in less than five institutions worldwide, and a few are unrecorded in ESTC. A full list of the contents is available upon request. Provenance: Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim (1768-1854) - sale, Battersby & Co., Dublin, June 1927 - Charles Dudley Massey (1905-1980) - by descent to Stephen C. Massey. Swift: ESTC T5189; Teerink 701. Together, 34 works in 1 vol., folio (305 x 192 mm). Nineteenth-century calf, raised bands, compartments ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, covers ruled in blind with armorial supralibros of the Earl of Leitrim, board edges and turn-ins tooled in blind, brown coated endpapers, marbled edges. Binding scuffed with spots of stripping, occasional browning, fold marks, or minor stains to contents as expected, small holes on a couple of leaves from rubbing, tear in mid section of one leaf with old paper repair in margin. Overall, very good.

8vo in fours, pp. [i], 48, 51-55; disbound. First edition: there was no prior Dublin printing of this collection. An unauthorised miscellany, containing eight pieces, five in verse and three in prose; despite the title-page, some of these are not by Swift, but several were definitely from his hand. The volume contains: (a) An Apology [addressed to Lady Carteret], on pp. 1-7. The only prior printing of this poem by Swift was a Dublin edition of 1730 (Foxon S799; Teerink 696). (b) A Libel on D--- D--- and a certain great Lord [addressed to Patrick Delany], on pp. 8-16. This poem by Swift was first printed in Dublin in 1730, and was several times reprinted, both in Dublin and in London (Foxon S877-883; Teerink 689A-C). (c) An Epistle upon an Epistle from a certain Doctor to a certain great Lord: Being a Christmas-Box for D. D---ny, on pp. 17-22. Another poem by Swift: the only earlier printing was in Dublin in 1730 (Foxon S842; Teerink 684). (d) An Epistle to his Excellency John Lord Carteret, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on pp. 23-28. A poem by Patrick Delany himself, first printed in Dublin in 1729 (Foxon D196-7; Teerink 1609-10). (e) The Drapier Demolished By William Wood, on pp. 28-38. A pseudonymous attack on Swift in prose, first published as an eight-page pamphlet in 1724. (f) A Proposal for an Act of Parliament, to sell the Bishops Lands, on pp. 39-48. This prose satire was first printed as part of a longer pamphlet in 1732; the title was somewhat different, and the text was credited to 'A.P.', i.e. Alexander Pope (Teerink 717A). In fact the author was probably Swift. (g) To the Rt. Honourable Sir Richard Poynes, Kt. The humble petition of Mr. Dermott Falvey, a well and most accomplished gentleman, on pp. 51-53. This prose piece is presumably not by Swift. (h) A Copy of Verses upon two celebrated Modern Poets, on pp. 54-55. A poem on Edward Young and Ambrose Phillips, printed here for the first time. Williams (p. 393) accepts Swift's authorship of this poem on the basis of its appearance in this miscellany, which seems an optimistic assumption. He suggests that it was written in 1726, when Swift was reading Young's Universal Passion, and had reason to ridicule Philips. The origin of this miscellany is difficult to determine, as the bookseller's name in the imprint is an invention commonly used at this period to conceal the source of an unauthorised publication. There was also a duodecimo printing the same year, with the same imprint. Teerink 40.

Together two parts, 8vo in fours, pp. [ii], 30; [iv], 28; browned in the second part; disbound. First edition of both parts. A very unusual pair of Swiftian miscellanies, printed by William Bowyer in an edition of 500 copies each, and shared, according to his ledgers, between himself and George Faulkner in Dublin. Of the seven poems in these two pamphlets, all but the first two had been printed separately in Dublin earlier the same year. The Christmas-Box was addressed by Swift to his friend Patrick Delany, to express dismay at what Swift considered Delany's unseemly attempt to seek preferment in the church (for the original printing, see Foxon S842). Swift's poem elicited a series of 'libels' on Delany by the wits of Dublin, of which An Answer to the Christmas-Box is a typical example (Foxon A246). The attribution in that printing to Rupert Barber, the husband of Swift's friend Mary Barber, was intended as an embarrassment, and the poem is thought to have been written by Thomas Sheridan. The Letter to Delany is also by Swift, and represents his attempt to bring to a close an episode which he saw as getting out of hand. Once the whole affair had been laid to rest, Delany resumed his habit of addressing good-natured poems to Swift with The Pheasant and the Lark, in which Lard Carteret is the pheasant, and Swift the lark. The Friendly Apology, a satire on Hartley Hutchinson, is described as 'by James Black-well, operator for the feet'; an attribution to Swift has not generally been accepted. Curiously, in this copy, this final poem has been rather heavily marked up, as if for reprinting, with changes in capitalization and spelling, and letters supplied for dashes in many of the proper names; these markings appear to be in an early hand. Another odd feature of Part II is the presence of a superfluous leaf bound after p. 24, plausibly paginated 24-25, but clearly from quite another source; there is, however, nothing missing. All in all, it seems reasonable to assume that Swift himself may have had something to do with having these poems reprinted in London, though there is no direct evidence to that effect. Case 363 (part I only); Teerink-Scouten 685 and 695. These small miscellanies are very rare: ESTC lists the pair as a set in only seven libraries (Cambridge UL and NLI in Britain and Ireland; and Harvard, Newberry, Yale, Clark and Texas in the USA).