The works of the Reverend Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin : with an account of his life and writings : as also, historical and explanatory notes, and a great number of original pieces, in verse and prose : the whole properly digested : in eleven neat pocket volumes, printed in a new beautiful silver type.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Contributor:

Faulkner, George, 1703?-1775, printer.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1762

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Reid, Panthea (donor) (Teerink copy)

Fischer, John Irwin, 1940-2015 (former owner) (honoree) (Teerink copy)

Physical Description:

11 volumes : illustrations, maps, portraits, music ; 14 cm (18mo)

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

Dublin : Printed by George Faulkner, MDCCLXII [1762]

Notes:

"The set is dated 1762 apart from vol. 3, which is dated 1756, and which volume was also issued separately with a different titlepage in the same year as 'Travels into several remote nations of the world. ... By Lemuel Gulliver, ...'"--ESTC.

Signatures: v. 1: A⁶ b⁶ c-d⁴ e² B-2D⁶ ; v. 2: A⁴ B-2I⁶ ; v. 3: [superscript pi]2A⁶ A-2D⁶ ; v. 4: pi1 [A]² B-2H⁶ 2I² ; v. 5: [A]² B-2O⁶ 2P² ; v. 6: [A]² B⁴ C-2H⁶ ; v. 7: pi1 [A]² B⁴ C-2F⁶ ; v. 8: pi1 [A]² B⁴ C-Y⁶ Z⁴ ; v. 9: [A]² B-2G⁶ ; v. 10: pi1 [A]² B-2E⁶ 2F² ; v. 11: pi² A⁶ b-d⁶ B-Q⁶ R⁴ S-2F⁶ 2G².

Pagination: v. 1: [2], xix, [23], 312 p., [1] leaf of plates ; v. 2: vii, [1], 108, 119-381, [1] p. ; v. 3: [4], viii, [12], 312 p., [7] leaves of plates ; v. 4: v, [5], 212, 211-357, [1] p. ; v. 5: [4], 436 p. ; v. 6: [4], 355, [1] p. ; v. 7: [2], iv, 331, [1] p. ; v. 8: vi, 256 p., [2] folded p. of plates ; v. 9: [4], 348 p. ; v. 10: v, [1], 103, [5], 105-323, [1] p. ; v. 11: [4], xlvii, [1], 336 p., [8] leaves of plates.

Format from ESTC.

Woodcut title vignettes and tail-pieces.

Head- and tail-pieces.

Subscribers' list at end of preliminaries of v. 1.

Local Notes:

Teerink copy imperfect: v. 10: leaf K6 wanting.

Teerink copy: v. 1 has early ms. note in brown ink at foot of leaf D6v.

Teerink copy 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: each vol. bound in full early sprinkled calf; blind-tooled cover edges; four raised bands on spine; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("SWIFT'S WORKS"); evidence of gold-stamped black leather spine label with vol. number.

Cited in:

ESTC T228842

Teerink-Scouten 53

OCLC:

948834969