Dean Swift's legacy to the wicked authors of the present age : In three parts. The two first containing arguments against abolishing christianity; and a project for the advancement of religion, and the reformation of manners: both new modell'd, and adapted to the present times. The third consisting of some new and tritical reflections on freethinking, and freethinkers: also animadversions and remarks variorum. Publish'd, according to the Dean's appointment, by H.F. Esq;.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Standardized Title:

Modest address to the wicked authors of the present age

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Controversial literature--Early works to 1800.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([2],9-34,39-107,[1]p. )

Other Title:

Dean Swift's legacy to the wicked authors of the present age

Place of Publication:

[London] : Dublin printed; London reprinted and sold by the booksellers there, and in Oxford and Cambridge, [MDCCLXV [1745]]

Notes:

Another issue of 'A modest address ..' with imprint: Dublin printed; London reprinted; and sold by the booksellers of Oxford and Cambridge. MDCCLXV. [i.e. 1745] (Price one shilling and six-pence).

The titlepage, B1, E1-3 and K2 have been cancelled and replaced by a new titlepage and three new leaves, pp.9/10 (signed B), pp.33/34 (signed E) and pp.75/76 (unsigned). The dedication comprising pp.v-xii has been omitted in this issue.

The date is probably an error for 1745.

Below imprint in square brackets: Price 1s. 6d.

The imprint date is from another issue of this work entitled 'A modest addressto the wicked authors of the present age. ...'.

Braces in title.

Price from imprint: price 1s. 6d.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

Teerink-Scouten, 78

Rothschild, 2181

English Short Title Catalog, T32146.

OCLC:

642566930