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MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE
by Swift, Jonathan
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- first
- Condition
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: John Morphew, 1711. Pp. [xiv]+416, title page decoration; demy 8vo; bound by Riviere & Son in later red morocco, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, boards with gilt decoration at centre and gilt ruled edges, the joints lightly rubbed; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers, dentelles ruled in gilt; bookplate of H. Whitfield Carhart, Jr. on upper pastedown, a couple of tiny edge splits, a little faint foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for John Morphew, London, 1711. First edition, large paper copy. Teerink 2.(1)(b); ESTC N44669; Rothschild 2015. *With the second state foliation recorded by Teerink, although in this copy A8 (which is not present) has not been used as a cancel, so both A and G have only 7 leaves. Rothschild explains that after printing, a decision to omit the final paragraphs of A Discourse of the Contests and Dissentions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome 'necessitated replacing G6 and G7(pp. 91-4) by one leaf, for which A8(verso blank) was used, thus leaving a gap in pagination for pp. 92-3'. This first collection of Swift's writings contains 25 works, including some of the 'Bickerstaff' tracts, two poems from theTatler (A Description of the Morning and A Description of a City Shower) and the first authorised printing of Meditations on a Broom-stick. H. Whitfield Carhart, jr. (1914-1977) was chairman of the board of Roosevelt Hospital, New York, and a partner in the Wall Street bank of Brown Brothers Harriman & Company.
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- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 168552
- Title
- MISCELLANIES IN PROSE AND VERSE
- Author
- Swift, Jonathan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- John Morphew
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1711
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Melbourne, Victoria
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- G
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- Edges
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- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- Bookplate
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