Miscellanies Last Volume by Swift Jonathan (6 results)

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Hardcover. 32mo, 336 pages. In Fair minus condition. Brown leather cracked spine with gilted silver lettering. Boards have severe shelving wear, severe wear along edges, splitting along boards, splitting along edges, moderate wear along corners, severe wear along joints, splitting along joints, severe wear along spine, severe chipping along spine, author name on spine split in half, and severe wear along spine head and tail. Textblock has splitting to gutter from front end-page to page 146 and pages 147-314, very loose rear end-page, ink staining on several pages, water damage, staining along joints, staining along front end-pages, severe staining along pastedowns, pencil marks on front pastedown, mild foxing along edges, moderate age-toning, moderate staining along edges, and moderate wear along edges. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk office, Case #3. 1380657. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Three volumes. First edition thus, with a preface by Swift and Pope. Contemporary full brown calf, spines lettered in gilt, red labels to spines, and red speckled edges. Good set, with heavy flaking to calf, spine ends lightly chipped, some wear to corners, some rubbing to edges, a bit of loss to spine label on Vol. I (lettering very minimally affected), dampstaining to pp. 32-144 and 222-305 in Vol. I and margins of Vol. II's title page and table of contents page, and just some light spotting and soiling to interiors otherwise. Overall, a sturdy and unrestored set, in a contemporary binding. Miscellanies is a collaborative work by satirists Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, mathematician John Arbuthnot, and poet John Gay, the most prominent members of the Scriblerus Club. The Club was formed in 1714, but most of their writings did not appear in print until decades later. As explained in the preface in Vol. I, Swift and his friends decided to publish their writings due to the fault of "some booksellers" (they even name one: "especially one Edmund Curll", who stole and published manuscripts from Swift, Pope, and Gay). Miscellanies contains satirical essays like Swift's "Meditation on a Broomstick" and "The Art of Political Lying," Pope's "The Art of Sinking in Poetry," Arbuthnot's "Law is a Bottomless Pit. Or, the History of John Bull," and many other notable essays, epistles, excerpts, and poems.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3 volumes. contemporary calf, , quite worn but sound, label to volume 2 defective, volume 3 (Last) volume wants the advert leaf before the title,

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.