Property From The Collection of Robert S Pirie Volumes I & II: Books and Manuscripts

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Lot 930
  • 930

Swift, Jonathan

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1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Swift, Jonathan
  • Directions to Servants in general; and in particular to the Butler, Cook, Footman, Coachman, Groom, House-Steward, and Land-Steward, Porter, Dairy-Maid, Chamber-Maid, Nurse, Laundress, House-keepers, Tutoress, or Governess. London: for R. Dodsley and M. Cooper, 1745
  • Ink, paper and cow
8vo (7 7/8 x 4 7/8 in.; 200 x 125 mm). Ninety-three pages, content on verso of last leaf; title and last page browned. Contemporary calf; rebacked, extremities rubbed or repaired, top of spine damaged. Probably a remboitage. 

Provenance

W. Chichester (onwership inscription on first endpaper)

Literature

Teerink, 785

Catalogue Note

First London edition after the Dublin edition published the same year. One of Jonathan Swift’s last completed works, written in his last years of sanity.