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A tale of a tub : written for the universal improvement of mankind : to which is added, An account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Teerink Collection PR3724 .T3 1711 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Language:
- English
- Penn Provenance:
- Dibdin, Thomas Rimbault (bookplate, 1937) (copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 15 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library
- Place of Publication:
- [London ?] : [publisher not identified], 1711.
- Notes:
- Published anonymously. By Swift.
- This edition has "Vein" on p.69, line 3 from foot; "uicely" on p.207, line 5 from foot.
- "Treatises writ by the same author ...": verso of first leaf (recto blank).
- "A full and true account of the battel ...": p. [215]-266, with special t.p.
- "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit": p. [269]-310, with special t.p.
- Cited in:
- Teerink-Scouten 224
- ESTC n013639
- Contains:
- Full and true account of the battel fought last Friday, between the antient and the modern books in St. James's Library.
- Discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit.
- OCLC:
- 5725552
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