The works of Jonathan Swift, . ... accurately revised in six volumes, adorned with copper-plates; with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
Category
Books
Date
1755
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3003557
Summary
Bibliographic description
6v.,plates . engr.music,maps . 4to.. Provenance: Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate, Curzon impaling Colyear, signature (Strongitharm) illegible: 'Recte et Suaviter' (Franks 7704; Lee's London Bookplates (1985) 193) [Sir Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Baron Scarsdale (1726-1804) m. 1750 Lady Caroline Colyear]; pasted over previous bookplate. Binding: Eighteenth-century full sprinkled leather binding; gilt fillet border; five raised bands; spine gilt decorated and spine label gilt lettered: "Swift's Works".
Makers and roles
Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)