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A tale of a tub : Written for the universal improvement of mankind : To which is added, An account of a battel, between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Teerink Collection PR3724 .T3 1710
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Eyre, Samuel (autograph) (Teerink copy 1)
- Reid, Panthea (donor) (Teerink copy 2)
- Fischer, John Irwin, 1940-2015 (former owner) (honoree) (Teerink copy 2)
- Govdall, W. S. (autograph) (Teerink copy 2)
- Geaspar, Jack Harley (autograph) (Teerink copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages, 344 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Edition:
- The fifth edition, with the author's apology and explanatory notes By W. W--tt--n, B.D. and others.
- Other Title:
- Account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library
- Fingerprint:
- heis t-nk n:ve (wan (3) 1710 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for John Nutt, ..., MDCCX [1710]
- Notes:
- "Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift."--ESTC.
- "W. W--tt--n" is William Wotton. Cf. Teerink-Scouten.
- Signatures: A⁸ a⁸ B-Y⁸ Z⁴.
- Leaf A2 signed A3; leaf A4 signed a2.
- "A full and true account of the battel fought last Friday, between the antient and the modern books in St. James's Library" and "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit. In a letter to a friend. A fragment" each has special dated title leaf; signatures and pagination are continuous.
- Engraved plates.
- Each title within border of double rules
- Local Notes:
- Teerink copy 2 has ms. bibliographical and bookseller's notes in pencil on front pastedown and front free endpaper; early ms. shelf-mark(?) ("D 1/2") in brown ink at head of front pastedown.
- Teerink copy 2 given to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Panthea Reid in memory of her late husband John Irwin Fischer, Swift scholar and collector of these books.
- Teerink copy 2 has dated 19th-century autograph ("W.S. Govdall 1877") in brown ink at head of front free endpaper; dated 20th-century autograph ("Jack Harley Geaspar 1925") in blue ink on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T49835
- Teerink-Scouten 222
- Contains:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Battle of the books.
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit.
- OCLC:
- 43125244
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