The works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, esq. : in four volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Addison, Joseph, 1672-1719.

Contributor:

Tickell, Thomas, 1685-1740.

Tonson, Jacob, 1682-1735, bookseller.

Swift's Library and Reading Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1721

Language:

English

Latin

Penn Provenance:

Vienken, Heinz J. (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Elias, Susan Homans (honoree) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Lovell, Cha. (autograph) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Gipps, G. (bookplate) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Stanton(?), Sarah (autograph) (Swift's Library and Reading Coll. copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes : illustrations, portrait ; 30 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., MDCCXXI [1721]

Language Note:

In English, with some Latin.

Notes:

Preface signed by Thomas Tickell.

This issue is on large paper with an engraved headpiece on p. 3 of vol. 1 showing the Muse giving a lyre to a man. The ordinary paper issue has the headpiece on p. 3 of vol. 1 showing an urn on a pedestal. Cf. ESTC.

The portrait engraved by George Vertue after a painting by G. Kneller; the engravings by G. Ver Gucht after designs by Sir James Thornhill.

Partially in verse.

With engraved initials and head-pieces.

Woodcuts: device; ill.; tail-pieces.

Vol. 3, p. 313 misnumbered 315.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 288 x 230 mm.

This title is part of The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift: a Partial Replication, a collection given to the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library in 2005 in memory of Susan Homans Elias and in honor of the late Heinz J. Vienken.

Cited in:

ESTC N24149

Passmann-Vienken. Swift's Library, I, 7

OCLC:

15013623