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Miscellanies : The last volume.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Teerink Collection PR3724 .M5 1736 v.4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Standardized Title:
- Miscellanies.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Reid, Panthea (donor) (Teerink copy 3)
- Fischer, John Irwin, 1940-2015 (former owner) (honoree) (Teerink copy 3)
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- rsan Y.IN eyng thth (7) 1736 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for B. Motte and C. Bathurst ..., MDCCXXXVI [1736]
- Notes:
- "Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift."--ESTC.
- "Also issued as 'Miscellanies. The third volume.', printed for Benjamin Motte, 1733, with a different titlepage and an initial advertisement leaf."--ESTC.
- Preface dated and signed at end: Twickenham, May 27, 1727. Jonath. Swift. Alex Pope.
- Signatures: A-N¹².
- Engraved title vignette (monogram).
- Woodcut factotums, head- and tail-pieces.
- According to preface, the Miscellanies "will contain all the papers wherein we have casually had any share; particularly those writ in conjunction with our friends, Dr. Arbuthnot and Mr. Gay ..."
- "Books printed for B. Motte, and C. Bathurst, at the Middle-Temple-Gate, Fleetstreet": P. [2].
- Local Notes:
- Teerink copy 3 has early ms. inscription ("E S S") on front pastedown; a few ms. marginal marks in pencil in text.
- Teerink copy 3 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 3 bound in contemporary full mottled calf; boards ruled in gold; blind-tooled(?) cover-edges; 5 raised bands on spine; spine panels ruled at head and foot in gold; gold-stamped red-leather spine label ("SWIFT'S MISCELLAN:"); volume number stamped in gold on spine; all edges stippled red.
- Cited in:
- Teerink-Scouten 28(3)
- ESTC T202847
- OCLC:
- 49357348
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