Law Bottomless Pit History by Arbuthnot John Swift Jonathan (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 12mo. Contemporary worn calf. Boards attenuated, held by cords. 226 p. Pages 201-206 in facsimile. Lacking bookseller's advertisement at rear. Evans 26574. 1st American edition. Often attributed to Jonathan Swift. The Dictionary of national biography notes that both Swift and Alexander Pope ascribed it to Arbuthnot.

London: John Morphew, Near Stationer's-Hall, 1712 (illustrator). London: John Morphew, Near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Owned by an Important Victorian Bookseller [Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)]. [Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Law is a Bottomless-Pit. Exemplify'd in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, And Lewis Baboon. Who Spent All They Had in a Law-Suit. Printed from a Manuscript Found in the Cabinet of the Famous Sir Humphry Polesworth. London: Printed for John Morphew, Near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Price 3d. 24 pp. English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) T114789 (?). [With] John Bull in His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [.] London: Printed for John Morphew, Near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Price 3d. 24, [2] pp. Final leaf (added?) blank. Publisher advertisement at foot of p. 24. ESTC N10231. [And] John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [.] London: Printed for John Morphew, Near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Price 6d. 47, [1] pp. Final page is a publisher advertisement. ESTC T29119 (variant). [And] Lewis Baboon Turned Honest, And John Bull Politician. Being The Fourth Part of Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [.] London: Printed for John Morphew, Near Stationers-Hall, 1712. Price 6d. 45, [3] pp. Publisher advertisement to 2 of final 3 pp. ESTC N3650. [And] An Appendix to John Bull Still in His Senses: Or, Law is a Bottomless-Pit. [.] London: Printed for John Morphew, Near Stationer's-Hall, 1712. Price 3d. 22, [2] pp. Publisher advertisement to last 2 pp. ESTC T22316. [And] A Complete Key to the Three Parts of Law is a Bottomless-Pit, And the Story of the St. Alban's Ghost. The Second Edition Corrected. [London: s.n., 1712]. 8 pp. ESTC T31052. Together 6 items. Disbound stab-stitched pamphlets, approximately 7" x 4-1/4", later bookplates of Harry Buxton Forman tipped onto title pages not affecting text. Moderate toning, light foxing, soiling, edgewear and faint dampstains in a few places, Forman's brief shelfmarks in pencil to first pages of titles I, II and IV. I: First and final leaves detached, trimming to foot of second leaf just touching catchword. II: Embossed seller stamps (John H.W. Cadby) to final blank, pencil annotation dated 1841 to its verso. III: Final leaf starting at foot but secure, a few early ink annotations affected by.