The Dreamer. ~ FIRST APPEARANCE OF SWIFT IN PRINT IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING

Name: The Dreamer. ~ FIRST APPEARANCE OF SWIFT IN PRINT IN A CONTEMPORARY BINDING
Author: [JONATHAN SWIFT] KING, William

Book Description

First edition. Pp [4],240, xxviii,14,[2] (Index followed by advertisement and ad leaf). Pages 82-89 contain the first appearance in print of Jonathan Swift s poem The answer (Teerink). Page 233 misnumbered 133. Contemporary calf, contrasting label, edges specked, original endpapers present, corners a little rubbed, unobtrusive tiny worm trails to margin of index leaves without affecting text. Early ownership stamp to fly leaf W B Rhodes. A good clean example, with wide margins throughout. Teerink, 1623.Unusual to find in a contemporary binding.

Author [JONATHAN SWIFT] KING, William

Date 1754

Binding Hardcover

Publisher London: printed for W. Owen, at Homer s Head, in Fleet-Street, MDCCLIV.

Condition Good

Price: £300.00

Offered by Celsus Books

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