The finest association copy of "Gulliver's Travels" known to exist. No presentation copies of the book are recorded: publication was strictly anonymous, and Swift was long coy about his authorship, even with his intimate friends.

The Roman Catholic gentlewoman Martha ("Patty") Blount (1690--1763) was the closest female friend of Alexander Pope, being the addressee of his Epistle to a Lady: on the Characters of Women (1735), perhaps the most substantial of his many tributes to her qualities (she was also the dedicatee of several of his other works). Martha and her sister Teresa Maria (1688-1759) met Pope around 1707. The sisters effectively constituted "Pope's most intimate link with the Roman Catholic high society which provided the subject of The Rape of the Lock..." (Valerie Rumbold, Oxford DNB). Martha and Pope denied persistent rumours that she had become his mistress, fianceé or secret bride, although it has been said that their relationship was the closest Pope came in his life to a genuine love affair. Upon his death in 1744 he bequeathed her £1,000, sixty of his books, all his household goods and chattels, and the residue of his estate. All of Martha Blount's residual property was left by her to her nephew Michael Blount.