Letters Written by the Late Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and Several of His Friends, From the Year 1703 to 1740: Volume One
London: Printed for T. Davies, 1769.
Price: $250.00
Hardcover. New edition. Volume one (of three) only. Full leather binding, gilt decoration on spine, marbled endpapers. Owner's name on title page, front board detached but present, loss of the title on the spine, extremities worn, thus fair only.
Item #351647
Jonathan Swift
birth name: Isaac Bickerstaff
born: 11/30/1667
died: 10/19/1745
nationality: Ireland
Biography
Irish author and dean of St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (from 1713), the foremost prose satirist in the English language. Besides the celebrated Gulliver's Travels (1726), he wrote such noted satires as A Tale of a Tub (1704) and A Modest Proposal (1729). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore