The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin / accurately revised in twelve volumes, adorned with copper-plates ; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory, by John Hawkesworth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Contributor:

Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773, editor.

Bathurst, Charles, bookseller.

Davis, Charles, -1755, bookseller.

Hitch, Charles, -1764, bookseller.

Hawes, Lacy, bookseller.

Hodges, James, Sir, -1774, bookseller.

Bowyer, William, 1699-1777, bookseller.

R. and J. Dodsley, bookseller.

Standardized Title:

Works. 1755

Language:

English

Penn Provenance:

Reid, Panthea (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy)

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

Brougham, H. (autograph) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Topping, James (autograph) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Physical Description:

12 volumes : illustrations, maps, music ; 21 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Title of v. 2-12: Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer, MDCCLV [1755]

Notes:

Vol. 1 only has general title page; v. 2-12 each has title: The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

Title pages in red and black.

Volumes 1, 10-12 are dated 1755; volumes 2-9, 1754. (Teerink's "Hawkes", for "Hawes", in volume 1, is an error.) The imprints to volumes 2-4, 6 read: "Printed for C. Bathurst"; that to volume 5: "Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Hitch and L. [Teerink: 'C.' (error)] Hawes"; those to volumes 7, 12: "Printed for C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, C. Bathurst, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer"; those to volumes 8-10: "Printed for C. Davis, J. Hodges, and W. Bowyer"; and to volume 11: "Printed for C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, C. Bathurst, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer."

Signatures: v. 1: pi1 [superscript pi]A⁸ A-D⁸ E⁶ F², ²A⁸ a⁸(-a8) B-N⁸ O⁴ [superscript chi]P⁴ P-Y⁸ Z² ; v. 2: pi1 [superscript pi]A⁴ a⁶ A-2L⁸ (leaf 2L8 blank); v. 3: [a]² b⁸ C-F⁸ G⁸(-G8) H-2D⁸ 2E⁴ ; v. 4: pi1 A1 B-R⁸ S⁶(S5+(T)-(U)⁸) T-U⁸ X² ; v. 5: pi1 [superscript pi]a⁴ b² a⁴(-a4) B-Y⁸ Z⁴ ; v. 6: [a]1 b² c1 B-U⁸ X² ; v. 7: pi1 A⁴ B-2D⁸ 2E⁸ (leaf 2E8 blank) ; v. 8: pi1 a1 B-Z⁸ 2A⁸(-2A6,2A7,2A8) 2E⁸ 2F⁴ ; v. 9: pi1 A1 B-2G⁸ 2H⁴ 2I² (leaf 2I2 blank) ; v. 10: A² B-2E⁸ 2F⁴ (leaf 2F4 blank) ; v. 11: [A]² B-2A⁸ 2B⁴ (leaf 2B4 blank) ; v. 12: pi1 a² B-2B⁸.

Pagination: v. 1: [2], 16, 80, xxix, [1], 340 p., 8 leaves of plates ; v. 2: [2], 8, xii, 542, [2] p., leaves 9-17 of plates ; v. 3: [14], 411, [1] p. ; v. 4: [4], 266, [3], 270-298, [1], 268-307, [1] p. ; v. 5: [2], xii, v, [1], 344 p., leaves 18-21 of plates ; v. 6: [8], 307. [1] p., leaves 22-25 of plates ; v. 7 [10], 430, [2] p., 4 p. of plates ; v. 8: [2], ii, 359 p., p. "360-414", [3], 418-440 p. ; v. 9: [4], 473, [3] p. ; v. 10: iv, 438, [2] p. ; v. 11: [4], 374, [2] p. ; v. 12: [2], iv, 383, [1] p.

Woodcut tail-piece.

Vol. 1: "A tale of a tub" has special dated title leaf which reads: A tale of a tub. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. Diu multumque desideratum. To which is added, an account of a battle between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library ... With the author's apology; and explanatory notes, by W. Wotton, B.D. and others. London: Printed for Charles Bathurst ... MDCCLIV.

Volume 1: "a8" in Teerink's collation should read "a8( -a8)."

Volume 3: "G8 (pages 85-6) cancelled, but reprinted, provided with a footnote on page [86], as H1" (Teerink).

Volume 4: "'A key to the lock', signatures [T]-[U]8 (pages [267]-298) has been inserted after signature S5 (page 266)" (ESTC; apparently overlooked by Teerink); "H²" in Teerink's collation should read "X²"

Volume 8: "Signatures 2A6-2A8, 2B-2D are apparently cancelled; the verso of signature 2A5 is numbered 360-414" (ESTC; apparently overlooked by Teerink; in fact it is the verso of 2A4, a cancellans, that is numbered "360-414", 2A4-8 having been cancelled; the next leaf is quite probably 2D8).

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy imperfect: v. 7: leaf 2E8 (blank) wanting.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 2 has a few ms. notes in pencil in text; v. 4 has ms. marginal pencil mark on leaf C8v; v. 7 has ms. calculations in pencil on front pastedown.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 1 has effaced ms. ownership inscription on front pastedown.

LIBRA Rare 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.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 1 has on front pastedown ms. armorial(?) sketch (2 swords crossed over a patriarchal cross with a pointed base and the lower crossbar also crossed vertically at both ends, the whole mounted on a thickly striped horizontal bar and surmounted by a thinly striped banderole); v. 2 has a version of the same sketch with the banderole simplified to a line.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 2 has autograph ("H Brougham") on front free endpaper.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 3-12 each has autograph ("Iames Topping") beneath armorial crest (right hand holding the head of a bird) on front pastedown. (Possibly a stencil?)

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 2 has printed paper slip with passage beginning "The lecturer then described, by a model, the kind of brain a human being should possess" affixed to p. 332.

LIBRA Rare copy: each vol. bound in early full calf; boards tooled in gold; gold-tooled cover edges; 5 raised bands on spine; spine panels double-ruled at head and foot in gold; gold-stamped spine labels, one with brief title ("SWIFT'S WORKS"), the other with vol. number; all edges red.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 1: boards, endpapers and some leaves at beginning of volume detached from spine; v. 3: left board partially detached and front free endpaper detached from spine; v. 4: right board and back free endpaper detached from spine; v. 6: boards, pastedowns, free endpapers and some leaves at beginning and end of vol. dampstained; v. 8: boards and leaves dampstained in tail margin; v. 9: left board detached from spine; v. 11: left board and some leaves at beginning of volume detached from spine; v. 12: left board, front pastedown and free endpaper and some leaves at beginning of vol. dampstained.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 2: left board and front free endpaper detached from spine; leaf a1 bound in before leaf [superscript pi]A1.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 5: left board detached; leaf b2 bound in before leaf [superscript pi]a1.

LIBRA Rare copy: v. 7: spine broken; left board partially detached from spine; boards and leaves dampstained in tail margin.

Cited in:

ESTC, T140266

Teerink, H. A bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift (2nd ed.), 88

OCLC:

26430553