A Tale Of A Tub: Written For the Universal Improvement of Makind
Language: English
Published by Herbert B. Turner & Co., Boston, 1902
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Margins13 Books, Redmond, WA, U.S.A.Margins13 Books
AbeBooks seller since January 19, 2011
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 53.77
Quantity: 1 available
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EARLY Twentieth Century Issue, Bound in dark red cloth with black titles. No jacket. Considered a 'difficult satire, but masterly'. "A 'tale' of three brothers, each representing one of the main branches of western Christianity." Frontispiece with tissue guard in place (of Swift). Barley worn corners and extremities. Closed foredge has a 'vintage' small stain- which does NOT enter interior page margins at all.(See photo). Two pages have micro chips at margin edge; one page margin has a 1/2" closed tear (no paper loss); and page 77 thru page 84 are uncut along foredge. Three lines of copperplate script on blank front free end-paper, dated 1909. A clean and a very tight volume. First published in 1704. NOTE: Small, Maynard & Co. is printed on spine cloth. They acquired the publishing company of H.B. Turner Co., who is the stated publisher on title page. 284 pages. Protected in a mylar slip.
Seller Inventory # 004801
Bibliographic details
- Title
- A Tale Of A Tub: Written For the Universal Improvement of Makind
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan (Notes by W. Wotton)
- Publisher
- Herbert B. Turner & Co., Boston
- Publication year
- 1902
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Classics, Essays/Non Fiction, Religion
Margins13 Books
Redmond, WA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 19, 2011
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