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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 1711d
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Tomkinson, Michael (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library
- Place of Publication:
- [London ?] : [publisher not identified], 1711.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. By Swift.
- In this edition, the quote from Lucretius on titlepage begins "Juvat que", p. 16, line 3 from top has 'highness', p. 50, line 1 from top has 'vour'.
- "Treatises writ by the same author ...": verso of first leaf (recto blank).
- "A full and true account of the battel ...": p. [215]-266, with special t.p.
- "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit": p. [269]-310, with special t.p.
- Local Notes:
- With: Curll, Edmund. Complete key to the tale of a tub. London : [s.n.], 1714. (item 1 of 2)
- Cited in:
- Teerink-Scouten 227
- ESTC n049976
- Contains:
- Full and true account of the battel fought last Friday, between the antient and the modern books in St. James's Library.
- Discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit.
- OCLC:
- 5725552
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