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[London] Printed at Dublin. London Reprinted: A. Moor [i.e. William Bowyer], 1729.

Price: $400.00

About the item

First collected edition. [vi], 217, [1] pp. 8vo. Contemporary calf, red morocco spine label. Rebacked, preserving spine, rubbed, front joint cracked, front free endpaper partially detachec, F2 & G5 with closed tears. Rothschild 2115; Teerink 34. Provenance: Tho. Gibbon, 1730 & Wm. Sanby, Christ College, Cambridge, 1770 (inscriptions on front free endpaper); Louis & Anne Marie Davidson (bookplate).

Item #308182

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 the nobility,” and several on economic matters. Portions of the text were written by Swift’s co-editor, Thomas Sheridan. The publisher "A. Moor" is fictitious; William Bowyer printed 1,000 copies for Charles Davis and Stephen Austin.