Swift Jonathan 1667 1745 Thomas Roscoe (2 results)

VOLUME II ONLY of a six volume set. Full title: THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D., AND DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S, DUBLIN. WITH COPIOUS NOTES AND ADDITIONS AND A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR. BY THOMAS ROSCOE. COMPLETE IN SIX VOLUMES. VOL. II. i-xiv, 15-628 pages. Hardcover: H 19.25cm x L 13.25cm. Original light brown full calf leather binding; splitting to front and rear joints leaving boards attached but tenuous, the front board more so than the rear; surface abrasion to spine with shallow wear at ends; spine decorated with two original black title labels with gilt lettering; slender scuffing along board edges with corners worn (book now presented in a trimmed clear Dura-Lar polyester film sheet forming a dj which aids in securing boards and enhances shelf presence). All edges marbled; marbled endpapers. Original owner's antiquarian ink inscription upon front flyleaf "J.O. Banks | Columbus | Miss | Dec. '1859" with his purple ink name stamp "J.O. Banks" at top of title page. Foxing and toning strongest on initial and rear leaves with lighter occurrences upon interior pages; mild diagonal crease affecting interior leaves as well. Text block binding is firm. A good antiquarian copy. Contents are: "Gulliver's Travels," "A Tale of a Tub," "The History of Martin, "The Battle of the Books," "A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," "The Drapier's Letters," and "Memoirs of Captain John Creichton." Born in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, James Oliver Banks (1829-1904) graduated with a bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Alabama in 1847 and 1850 respectively later followed by a medical degree from Jefferson College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Banks entered Civil War military service as a captain in September 1861 in Columbus, Mississippi with Company A, 5th Battalion, Mississippi Confederate Infantry rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel in October 1862 with the 43rd Mississippi Infantry participating in action at the Battle of Corinth and Vicksburg with final service in Alabama and Georgia. Banks was first married to Martha Jane Coleman (1833-1868) of Greene County, Alabama with whom he had five children (of which two passed in infancy) and, following her death, married Lucy Watkins Young (1841-1933) on May 11, 1870 with whom he had five children (all surviving to adulthood). Lucy Young was one of ten children of George Hampton Young who owned the architecturally renowned Waverly Plantation on the west bank of the Tombigbee River between Columbus and West Point, Mississippi.

TWO VOLUME COMPLETE SET. Full title - THE WORKS OF JONATHAN SWIFT, D.D., AND DEAN OF SAINT PATRICK'S, DUBLIN: CONTAINING INTERESTING AND VALUABLE PAPERS, NOT HITHERTO PUBLISHED. IN TWO VOLUMES. WITH MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR, BY THOMAS ROSCOE. VOLUME I and VOLUME II. Both volumes with matching London-Washbourne 1841 imprints. Hardcovers: H 24cm x L 15.5cm. Contemporary full black leather bindings; boards rubbed with slender wear at edges particularly at corners; boards decorated with two-line gilt borders adjoined by inner band featuring a stamped flower design; spines decorated with four slightly raised bands and dark maroon title label along with dark maroon volume# label; some scudding at spine ends and along joints. Darkened top edges; stains to toned fore-edges and bottom edges. Pale yellow endpapers; top left corner of each volume's front pastedown bears mid-19th century style bookbinder ticket for George W. Wilson - by no means definitively proven but, by circumstance of ownership of a Nashville tannery (certainly a trade with an affiliation to bookbinding) , the binder might well be Col. George W. Wilson (1778-1848) who served as Free and Accepted Masons Grand Master of Tennessee in 1840. Foxing/toning with some soiling, stains, and occasional creased corners to interior leaves. Double-column text. **** VOLUME I: i-lxxxiv, 1-844 pages. Several leaf stubs evident at front hinge with missing its muted yellow front free endpaper and at least one flyleaf; an extant flyleaf and adjacent frontis both slightly pulled but binding otherwise firm. Faded pencil signature at top of title page. Unpaged b/w frontispiece portrait of Swift with toned guard sheet. Includes "Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver . . ." aka "Gulliver's Travels." ***** VOLUME II: i-iv, 1-854 pages. Old ink and pencil writing on ffep but only with date at top margin still legible; old ink and pencil marks on rear pastedown; two stubs at rear hinge evidence missing rear flyleaf and rear free endpaper; binding remains firm. With unpaged foldout frontispiece facsimile Swift letter but with losses to its guard sheet. ***** Still a handsome set and, by the presence of each volume's respective Wilson ticket, evidently a relatively rare mid-19th century Tennessee binding by an obscure Nashville binder despite the books' London imprints. Please note that this set has an approximate shipping weight of 6.5 pounds (2.94 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.