Swiftiana (6 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. 25 pages. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 26 cms. Category: John Rylands Library; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

First edition. First edition. 11 plates and a tailpiece engraved by John Jackson after original designs by Kenny Meadows. 1 vols. 12mo. Jones was also the author of "Attempts in Verse by John Jones, an old Servant; with some account of the Writer written by himself, and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works of our uneducated Poets by Robert Southey." (1831). In the 1836 edition of Southey's work the "Attempts in Verse" forms the appendix. Original green cloth with the gilt title "Comic Keepsake" on upper cover. Some rubbing and discoloration of cloth, slightly shaken, some spotting of text, else a very good copy 11 plates and a tailpiece engraved by John Jackson after original designs by Kenny Meadows. 1 vols. 12mo.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. 8vo. Later plain blue wraps. pp. 73. A scarce piece of Swiftiana, modeled on Swift's Humorous Advice to Servants. A nice copy. OCLC: 969527860.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition. 4to. (191 x 153mm). Pagination: 10,[2]. (Some browning.) Disbound. FIRST EDITION, one of two issues by Roberts. This Scriblerian account of "the wonderful Wild Man," the Yahoo-like boy named Peter who "expresseth his joy most commonly by Neighing" and "takes vast pleasure in conversation with horses, " came out in the same year as Gulliver's Travels. Swift wrote to Thomas Tickell in Dublin, 16 April 1726, reporting: "This Night I sow the wild Boy, whose arrival here hath been the subject of half our Talk this fortnight. He is in the keeping of Dr. Arbuthnot, but the King and Court were so entertained with him, that the Princess could not get him till now. I can hardly think him wild in the Sense they reports him" (Corr. ii. 637). This anonymous tract on his peculiarities appeared in the third volume of Miscellanies 1732) [Teerink 25 (4)], sanctioned by Pope. In a later edition of the same volume, published under Pope's supervision by Charles Bathurst in 1742 (Teerink 66], it was listed with other works in the contents as "by Dr. Arbuthnot." Lester Beattie takes the view that Arbuthnot began a sketch which was later completed or rewritten by another hand (John Arbuthnot (Cambridge, Mass., 1935), 305-06). However, David Woolley observes that "the tumbling succession of ideas" in this eight-page account is characteristic of Arbuthnot, "and very likely incorporates some hearsay about the contents of Swift's unpublished Travels" (Corr. it. 638n). Alexander Pettit assigns the authorship to Arbuthnot "et al." in his note on the authorship of items in the Swift-Pope Miscellanies (Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2002) vol. 1, p. xxvi). Disappointingly, the other "Rarities" promised on the title-page receive no mention in the text. A tract which is almost unknown on the market.…

8vo. pp. 4 p.l., 40. with half-title. disbound (light foxing). First Edition. Grose 3036n. Rothschild 2327. Teerink 1040.

Folio. 4 pp. Unbound and uncut bifolium; creased and toned, edges worn, in cloth folding case, worn and split First edition of this "reply, in defence of Marlborough, to The Fable of the Widow and the Cat in which Swift had a hand" (Rothschild) which has been variously, and erroneously, attributed to Prior and Swift, as well as Arthur Mainwaring.REFERENCE: Ashley IV, p. 77; ESTC T52367; Foxon W384; Rothschild 1690; Teerink 1299PROVENANCE: Jerome Kern (book-label, his sale 1 January 1929, lot 969).…