SWIFT, Jonathan.. Selected Essays. Decorated with Engravings on Wood by JON FARLEIGH. Edited by R. ELLIS ROBERTS.. The Golden Cockerel Press Volume one ALL PUBLISHED. LIMITED EDITION of 450 copies no. 134 as stated, 1925.

Price: US$301.00 + shipping

Description: pp. (viii), 9-80, (i) imprint with gilt cockerel device, (iii) blank. Text wood engravings by JOHN FARLEIGH. Vellum-backed boards, uncut, a very good copy. *The intended publication was to have been 2 volumes, each limited to 450 copies. A printed slip at the front of the book explains : '. owing to an accident in the recent Thunder-storms, more than half the sheets of Swift's Essays, Volume I., were destroyed. The type having been already distributed, these will not be reprinted. The edition, in spite of some of the sheets having a higher number, will therefore consist of less than 200 copies .' CHANTICLEER #27 - 190 copies survived.

Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom

Ellis Roberts, R. (ed). Selected Essays by the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin decorated with Engravings on Wood by Jon Farleigh. Volume One.. The Golden Cockerel Press, Great Britain, 1925. Limited edition of 450 copies, of which this is number 329., 1925.

Price: US$317.61 + shipping

Description: 4to (ca 10.5x8in), hardback, prelims + 80pp + endpapers. Cream spine with green marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine. Good+ condition. General light wear, spine sunned, bumped, some offsetting and discolouration to endpapers, page edges foxed and age-toned, upper front corner bruised and lightly split. Uncut, thick cream paper, two columns per page throughout. A lovely volume. Pictures available on request. Note : only one volume was ever issued. Of this first volume, over half were destroyed, and the surviving copies were issued to subscribers in order of priority.

Seller: City Basement Books, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Swift, Jonathan; Roberts, R.Ellis [editor] Wood engravings by Jon Farleigh. Selected Essays by the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Volume One. Published by The Golden Cockerel Press, Berkshire, 1925.

Price: US$352.24 + shipping

Description: , 80 pages, no 279 of limited edition of 450 (of which only 190 survive), watermarked paper, vignette to title page, green and black ink, woodcuts to text, volume One only, volume two was never published Limited Edition , spine lightly bumped, small tear to paper on front, corners rubbed, endpapers tanned, foxing to untrimmed edges, pages clean, very good condition , quarter vellum and marbled paper covered boards, gilt title to spine , 26.5 x 20 cm Hardback ISBN:

Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom

Jonathan Swift; W. Ellis Roberts. Selected Essays. The Golden Cockerel Press, London, 1925.

Price: US$377.85 + shipping

Description: The Golden Cockerell limited edition copy of selected essays by Jonathan Swift, a nice work with wood engravings. Limited edition, limited to 450 copies, this copy numbered 262. Only 190 copies of this limited edition were produced.Volume One stated to the title page, however no Volume Two was ever published.A selected volume of essays by the great satirist Jonathan Swift, including 'A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit', 'A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick', and more.Illustrated with in-text wood engravings by Jon Farleigh.Edited by R. Ellis Roberts.Bookplate of Frederick Freke Palmer to the front paste down. In the original publisher's half vellum binding with paper to the boards. Externally, smart. A little discolouration to the vellum, as is usual. Only a few light marks to the boards. A patch of fading to the head of the rear board. Bookplate to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom