Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces 1733-1742 (The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Volume 13)

Swift, Jonathan (edited by Herbert Davis)

Published by Basil Blackwell for The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford, 1959

About this Item

1959. First edition. xliv, 233pp., frontispiece portrait and 11 black and white illustrations including copies of title-pages. Top edge gilt. Herbert John Davis (1893-1967) was an English literary scholar and university administrator. This is the thirteenth volume of The Shakespeare Head Swift edition of the prose works of Jonathan Swift, edited by Herbert Davis. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The book is in excellent condition and the contents are tight and clean with no inscription. Many of the pages remain unseparated down the fore edge. The unclipped dustwrapper has shelf wear with some soiling and a few stains from water splashing. There is some red staining on the rear fore edge. The spine is browned and the spine ends are lightly bumped.

Seller Inventory # gLitSwift01

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces 1733-1742 (The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift Volume 13)
• Publisher: Basil Blackwell for The Shakespeare Head Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1959
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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