Born in Dublin in 1667, Jonathan Swift is widely regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language with not much attention given to his poetry. His most famous works are: Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier's Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub.
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London: J.C. Nimmo and Bain, 1882. One of 450 copies. Read More Item Details for Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver Add to Wish List
Item #58646
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London: Printed for Charles Bathhurst, 1755. First edition. Early biography of Swift, written by Deane Swift, the cousin of Jonathan; of special interest for its treatment of Jonathan's relations to his contemporaries. It includes unpublished letters from Dr. Swift, and a good deal of material by others of his circle..... Read More Item Details for An Essay Upon the Life, Writings, and Character, of Dr. Jonathan Swift. Interspersed with some occasional Animadversions Upon the Remarks of a late critical Author, And upon the Observations of an anonymous Writer on those Remarks. By Deane Swift, Esq; [sic] To which is added, That Sketch of Dr. Swift's Life, written by the Doctor himself, which was lately presented By the Author of this Essay to the University Of Dublin Add to Wish List
Item #53118
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London: Macmillan, 1908. Brock, Charles. First Edition with these illustrations. Read More Item Details for Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver. With a Preface by Sir Henry Craik Add to Wish List
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![Item #366385 A Voyage to Lilliput...[and] A Voyage to Brobdingnag by Dr. Lemuel Gulliver....](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/366385.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1703793138)
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New York: Printed by the Aldus Printers for The Limited editions Club, 1950. Number 1094 of 1500 copies numbered and initialed by Bruce Rogers. Read More Item Details for A Voyage to Lilliput...[and] A Voyage to Brobdingnag by Dr. Lemuel Gulliver Add to Wish List
Item #366385
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London: Charles Bathhurst, 1760. A reimpression of vol.1 of ’The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, .. ’ London, 1760, with the omission of the volume title and the prefatory matter; the volume numbers in the direction line have been removed, and the signatures indicated by new capitals. Read More Item Details for A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is added, an Account of a Battel, between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library … with the Author's Apology and Explanatory Notes. By W. Wotton, B.D. and others Add to Wish List
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Chicago: Rand McNally, [1912]. Winter, Milo. First American Edition thus. Read More Item Details for Gulliver's Travels Add to Wish List
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London: Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer, 1755. First Hawkesworth edition. The first six volumes of the collected works of Swift, a set that was eventually extended to 14 volume. Read More Item Details for The Works … Adorned with Copper-Plates; with Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, by John Hawkesworth Add to Wish List
Item #318686
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n.p. [London]: 1711; and 1724 (Key). One of four 12mo editions of 1711 (sequence unknown) probably #4. Read More Item Details for A Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind; to which is added An Account of a Battel [sic] between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library [bound with:] A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub. The Fourth Edition Add to Wish List
Item #315070
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London: C. Davis, 1738. First edition thus. A supplement to the Swift-Pope's Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, first published by Motte in 1727, reprinting Swift's political tracts from volumes V & VI of Faulkner's 1738 Dublin edition of the Works. Read More Item Details for Political Tracts Add to Wish List
Item #308192
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[London] Dublin Printed. London: Reprinted: A. Moore, 1734. First edition. First edition of this unauthorized miscellany gathering previously published material. The name "A. Moore" is fictitious, as is the mention of a Dublin edition. "An Apology to Lady Carteret" and "An Epistle to his Excellency John Lord Carteret" are by..... Read More Item Details for Miscellanies. Consisting Chiefly of Original Pieces in Prose and Verse. By D--n S----t Add to Wish List
Item #308190
![Item #308182 The Intelligencer [nos. 1-19]. Jonathan Swift, Thomas SHERIDAN](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/308182.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1495590850)
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[London] Printed at Dublin. London Reprinted: A. Moor [i.e. William Bowyer], 1729. First collected edition. An Irish periodical published through the previous year and gathered here for the first time. Includes two pieces on John Gay, one on “the folly of gaming,” one on “the foolish methods of education among..... Read More Item Details for The Intelligencer [nos. 1-19] Add to Wish List
Item #308182
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London: John Morphew, 1713. First edition. Swift vs. Burnet. First edition of Swift's reply to Gilbert Burnet's Introduction to volume 3 of his History of the Reformation. Burnet painted Popery as the deadliest of evils, and suggested that only Whig bishops, such as himself, could resist it. Swift, having switched..... Read More Item Details for A Preface to the B——p of S–r–m's Introduction to the Third Volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England. By Gregory Misosarum Add to Wish List
Item #308178
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[London] Dublin printed. London, re-printed: J. Roberts, 1731. First London edition. Teerink attributes this to Swift (whose name appears on the title) — though only the poem "The Place of the Damn'd" is certainly by him. Read More Item Details for A Proposal Humbly Offer'd to the P——t, for the More Effectual Preventing the Further Growth of Popery … By Dr. S—t. To Which is Added the Humble Petition of the Weavers … As Also Two Poems … Add to Wish List
Item #308177
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London: John Morphew, 1711. First edition, second state, large paper copy. Large Paper Copy, with Swift's 'Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick'. Contains the first authorized printing of Swift's "Meditation upon a Broom-Stick," which was first printed by Curll on about 6 April 1710 from a manuscript stolen from Swift. The present..... Read More Item Details for Miscellanies in Prose and Verse Add to Wish List
Item #308172
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London: John Morphew, 1713. First edition. A sammelband of 16 tracts, including the first edition of Burnet's Introduction to volume 3 of his History of the Reformation as well as Swift's reply (his Preface to B[ishop] of S[a]r[u]m's Introduction). Burnet painted Popery as the deadliest of evils, and suggested that..... Read More Item Details for A Preface to the B----p of S--r--m's Introduction to the Third Volume of the History of the Reformation of the Church of England [in a bound volume of 16 tracts] Add to Wish List
Item #308170
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London: Printed for John Morphew, 1711. The Fifth Edition, Corrected. Read More Item Details for The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry, in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War Add to Wish List
Item #260348
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London: Various publishers, 1711-1712. The pamphlets are as follows: [SWIFT, Jonathan.] THE CONDUCT OF THE ALLIES, and of the late ministry, in beginning and carrying on the present war . . . The second edition, corrected. London, printed for John Morphew ... 1711. Second edition, 96 pp. Teerink 539. [HARE..... Read More Item Details for Volume of pamphlets by Swift and others, formed by a contemporary collector, relating to his Conduct of the Allies (1711) and Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty (1712) Add to Wish List
Item #260277
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London: Printed for A. Millar, in the Strand, 1758. First edition. Swift wrote the History in 1713 but was repeatedly dissuaded from publishing it during his lifetime. Read More Item Details for The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen…Published from the last Manuscript Copy, Corrected and Enlarged by the Author's Own Hand Add to Wish List
Item #260190
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London: printed for N. Blandford; and sold by J. Peele, 1726. First Blandford edition. A famous poem about the relationship between Swift and Esther Vanhomrigh ("Vanessa"), who died in 1723 and among whose papers a manuscript of the poem was found. It was first published in Dublin on about April..... Read More Item Details for Cadenus and Vanessa. A poem. By Dr. S—t Add to Wish List
Item #260186
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London: Printed at Dublin, and Reprinted at London: And sold by J. Huggsonson…, 1733. First edition. “The imprint is probably misleading, for no earlier Dublin edition is known; the poem is one of the six conveyed by Mrs. Barber to Pilkington, and was published in London on 31 December 1733..... Read More Item Details for On Poetry; a Rapsody Add to Wish List
Item #260177
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London: Printed for R. Davis, 1766. First edition. In this first edition Hawkeworth has severely edited the 67 letters from Swift's "Journal to Stella." Read More Item Details for Letters written by the Late Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; and Several Friends. From the Year 1703 to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical, by John Hawkesworth, L.L.D Add to Wish List
Item #25361
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London: 1765-1779. Voulumes 1-XIV are dated 1768 (Teerink, Fifth Stage) ; Volumes XV-XVI are dated 1765 (Teerink's Third Stage, First Edition); Volume XVII , 1775 (Teerink's Sixth Stage); Volumes XVIII-XX, Letters (Terrink's Fourth Stage); Volumes XXI-XXIII, Letters, 1768 (Teerink's Fifth Stage); VolumeXXIV, Supplement, 1776 (Teerink's Seventh Stage); Volume XXV, Supplement..... Read More Item Details for The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised in twelve volumes, adorned with copper-plates; with some account of the author's life and notes Add to Wish List
Item #249468
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London: Bathhurst, 1755 & 1768. Read More Item Details for The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Volume II Part I & II. WITH The Letters written by the Late Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's Dublin; and Several of his Friends. From the Year 1710 to 1742. Published from the Originals; Collected and revised by Deane Swift, Esq. pf Goodrich, in Herefordshire. Volume III Add to Wish List
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