The works of Jonathan Swift ... : containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, not hitherto published ; with notes, and a life of the author, by Sir Walter Scott, bart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Contributor:

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Archibald Constable & Co., publisher.

Hurst, Robinson, and Co., publisher.

James Ballantyne and Co., printer.

British Imprints Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1824

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Swift, Jonathan.

Authors, Irish--18th century--Correspondence.

Authors, Irish.

Authors, Irish--18th century--Biography.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Forrest, Edwin, Estate of (donor) (Forrest copy)

Physical Description:

19 volumes : illustrations, music, portrait ; 22 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Printed for A. Constable and Co. ... ; and Hurst, Robinson and Co., London, 1824.

Contents:

v.1. Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D.

v.2.-3. Journal to Stella.

v.4.-5. Tracts, historical and political, during the reign of Queen Anne.

v.6. Law is a bottomless pit; or the history of John Bull. The drapier's letters.

v.7. The drapier's letters (cont.) Miscellaneous tracts upon Irish affairs. Sermons.

v.8. Sermons (cont.) Tracts in defence of Christianity. Tracts in support of the Church establishment. Tracts on the test act. Essays, periodical and miscellaneous.

v.9. Miscellaneous essays.

v.10. Tale of a tub. Battle of the books. A discourse concerning the mechancial operation of the spirit. Abstract of the history of England ... Letters ... Poems ascribed to Swift.

v.11. Gulliver's travels. Directions to servants.

v.12. Historical tracts. Political poetry preceding 1715. Poems chiefly relating to Irish politics, subsequent to 1715.

v.13. Miscellanies in prose, by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay ... Miscellanies in verse by Mr. Pope, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Gay, etc. Prose miscellanies by Swift and Sheridan.

v.14. Miscellaneous poems. Verses written during Lord Carteret's administration of Ireland. Poems addressed to Vanessa and Stella.

v.15. Poetry. Riddles by Dr. Swift and his friends. Trifles, passing between Swift and Sheridan. Poems composed at Market-Hill. Verses, addressed to Swift and to his memory. Espistolary correspondence. Letters ...

v.16. Epistolary correspondence. Letters from August 1714, to September 1724.

v.17. Epistolary correspondence. Letters from September 1725 to May 1732.

v.18. Epistolary correspondence. Letters from May 19, 1732, to October 23, 1736.

v.19. Epistolary corresondence. Letters from October 30, 1736, to February 14, 1750. Appendix to the original correspondence between Dean Swift and his friends. Correspondence between Swift and Miss Vanhomrigh. Index.

Notes:

Printer's imprint of James Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, on final p. of v. 1, 6-19; and of George Ramsay and Co. on final p. of v. 2-5.

Cited in:

Teerink, H. Swift 139.

OCLC:

4321773