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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: London: John Nutt, 1704. Third edition (Swift Archive). The first three editions were all published in 1704 (NCBEL v.2, 1057), all by Nutt. Contemporary full paneled calf, re-backed in calf and with new end papers in the nineteenth century, red leather label, gilt, spine ruled in gilt, xii, 322 pp., (a)6; B-X8; Y1. With a page of imaginary ads facing the title, text block measures 187mm tall. With a contemporary annotation in ink at the bottom of page 55: "this good father died". Some wear but a Very Good, sound copy.
Seller: Up-Country Letters, Gardnerville, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Contemporary embossed full leather binding shows scars and front cover cracked. Small loss toe of spine. Tight and unmarked. d63 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$489.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book measures 20x12.cm. [12],322pp. Bound in full panelled calf. At some time the book has been rebacked, retaining the panelled boards, and original title label, raised bands. Boards rubbed, scuffed, some wear loss on corners. Generally binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, sellotape along inner margin of frontis booklist and title page. Pages in good clean condition throughout. A nice copy.F Size: Small 8vo
Seller: George Jeffery Books, HERTFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom
Swift, Jonathan. A Tale of a Tub. John Nutt, London, 1704.
Price: US$984.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Full leather with six raised bands on the spine and title slip and decorations in the compartments. Second Edition Corrected. From the library of William Alfred Eddy with his bookplate. Eddy edited books of Swift’s works when he was a literary scholar and professor at Dartmouth College. He later was President of Hobart College and William Smith College. He was an officer in the Marine Corps during World War I and II. In this issue, the word “uterinus” on page 320 is printed in full. A portrait of Swift from 1754 is bound in before the title page. Chip at the head of the spine, Good.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1343.60 + shipping
Description: To which is added An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. The Second Edition Corrected. Pp. [xii]+322; small cr. 8vo; modern brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with decorative gilt border and central gilt decoration; later endpapers and binder's blanks, small inked annotation (author's name and owner's signature in an early hand) on the title page, a couple of small marginal damp stains, a little light foxing and occasional slight soiling; printed for John Nutt, London, 1704. Second edition. Teerink 218; ESTC T49833. *With the initial advertisement leaf and the final blank present; also the word 'uterinus' in full on page 320. Published in the same year as the first edition, this was Swift's first major work and is considered one of his best satires. 'Though this work always goes by the title of A Tale of a Tub, it contains two more pieces, one mentioned in the title (An Account of a Battel, &c), the third not (A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of The Spirit) [Teerink p. 165].
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Price: US$7085.45 + shipping
Description: First edition of Swift's first full-length book, a satire on religious factionalism with three brothers representing Roman Catholicism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism. "While Swift's reputation today rests largely on his [Gulliver's] Travels, the work that put him in the center of the literary world of his day was A Tale of a Tub. I suspect that among readers who have spent years studying Swift's works, few would disagree that, judged on the basis of dazzling literary brilliance, A Tale is Swift's greatest work" (Quintero, p. 203). The latter half, the "Battle of the Books", "is a defence of Temple's cultural opposition to certain branches of 'modern' learning such as accurate historical and textual scholarship and mathematics, as expressed in William Temple's Essay upon the Ancient and Modern Learning (1690)" (ODNB). ESTC T49832; Rothschild 1992; Teerink 217. Ruben Quintero, A Companion to Satire, 2008. Octavo (184 x 107 mm). Contemporary calf, rebacked and relined to style, covers panelled in blind. A few tiny spots of wear to calf, a few splashes of green to fore edge slightly encroaching into outer margin of contents in places. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom