The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Volume III: Letters 1726-1734. Nos. 701-1100

David Woolley [Editor]

ISBN 10: 3631408323 / ISBN 13: 9783631408322

Published by Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Volume III: Letters 1726-1734. Nos. 701-1100
• Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3631408323
• ISBN 13: 9783631408322
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
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Synopsis

The collected letters of Jonathan Swift D.D., Irish dean and celebrated author of Gulliver's Travels, have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters.

Review

« ... Mr. Woolley's fine edition of Swift's 'Correspondence' ... will be regarded by Swift scholars as a monumental scholarly achievement - erudite, personal, charming and witty. A new edition is unlikely to be needed for the foreseeable future. -- J.A. Downie

« This first volume of Woolley's edition of Swift's correspondence is itself a real and lasting contribution to learning. The completed work will be invaluable. [...] let us take this opportunity to celebrate the publication of what will soon look like a distinctly old-fashioned object - an elegantly written, well designed, accurately set, carefully proofread, well printed, solidly constructed, hand-stitched, case-bound, 650-page book. Swift himself - lover of books, lover of lists, lover of footnotes, lover of accuracy, lover of good editing - would have approved. -- Andrew Carpenter