Jonathan Swift

The Works of Jonathan Swift

Archibald Constable and Co., White, Cochrane and Co., Gale, Curtis, and Fenner

1814

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Description

A finely bound collection of the works of Jonathan Swift, including additional letters, tracts and poems not hitherto published.

  • Sold as a set of 19 volumes.
  • Jonathan Swift (Irish).
  • Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; White, Cochrane, and Co.; Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, 1814. 
  • Large Octavos.
  • Bound in full contemporary tooled leather, rebacked with new paneled leather spines and gilt tooling, edges of text blocks marbled, with marbled endpapers.

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Moderate rubbing to head and tail of spines and edges of boards.

Heavier rubbing and some bumping to corners of boards.

Scuffing to spines and boards.

Marbled endpapers tanned at the edges.

Age toning and scattered staining and foxing throughout text blocks.

Penciling to verso of front free endpaper and recto of rear free endpaper in Volume I.

Ribbon stains on pages 194 and 195 in Volume II and pages 224 and 225 in Volume XV.

Light staining to the fore edge of the text block on Volume VI.

Tearing to pages 323-376 in Volume IX.

Tape to the gutter between the front free endpaper and pastedown in Volume XIII.

Penciling to verso of front free endpaper in Volume XIII.

Leather loosening at hinges on Volume XIII.

Heavier foxing throughout the text blocks in Volumes XIII-XVII.

Language

English

Subject

Novels, Fine bindings, Biography, Short Stories, Poetry

SKU

D2HHF

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