Research Catalog

Title

Volume IV of the author's works : containing, a collection of tracts, relating to Ireland, among which are, the Drapier's letters to the people of Ireland, against receiving Wood's half-pence : also, two original Drapier's letters, never before published.

Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Publication

Dublin : Printed by and for George Faulkner, printer and bookseller, 1735 [i.e. 1734]

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Details

Description

[10], ii, 388 [i.e. 384] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 23 cm. (8vo)

Alternative Title

• Volume four of the author's works.
• Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D., in four volumes.
• Drapier's letters to the people of Ireland, against Wood's half-pence.

Subjects

• Money > Ireland > History
• Dunkin, William, > 1709?-1765 > Provenance
• Coinage > Ireland > History
• Massey, T. H > Provenance
• Bookbinding (Binding) > Ireland > 18th century
• Ireland > Politics and government > 18th century

Genre/Form

Bookbinding (Binding) – Ireland – 18th century.

Note

• Vol. 4 of: The works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D., in four volumes, 1735 [i.e. 1734-1735].
• Actual date of publication from Teerink.
• Signatures: [A]⁴ B-2B⁸ 2C². I8 signed *I. Sheet N in Teerink's 3rd state, with all corrections.
• Errors in paging: nos. 61-64 omitted; p. 255, 346 and 350 wrongly numbered 155, 349 and 50.
• Illustrations: 1 print : engraving ; full-page. Caption: Vol. 4; legend: Exegi monumentum aere perennius. Hor. Subject: Allegorical port. of Swift.
• Woodcut head- and tailpieces; ornamental initials. Headpiece on p. 65 depicts Swift between 2 female figures.
• "A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden to their parents or country; and for making them beneficial to the public": p. 273-285.

Indexed In (note)

• ESTC
• Rothschild
• Teerink, H. Swift (2nd ed.)

Call Number

Spencer Coll. Irish 1734 93-437

OCLC

NYPG84-B21310

Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Title

Volume IV of the author's works : containing, a collection of tracts, relating to Ireland, among which are, the Drapier's letters to the people of Ireland, against receiving Wood's half-pence : also, two original Drapier's letters, never before published.

Imprint

Dublin : Printed by and for George Faulkner, printer and bookseller, 1735 [i.e. 1734]

Indexed In:

ESTC T052771

Rothschild, II, 2151

Teerink, H. Swift (2nd ed.), 41

Local Note

Binding: Dark blue morocco, gilt, in the style associated with contemporary commissioned bindings for Trinity College, Dublin: wave-and-bird border with lozenge shaped centerpiece built up from small tools and gouges. Assigned to "Joseph Leathley's Binder" in: Gold-tooled bookbindings commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin in the eighteenth century / Joseph McDonnell & Patrick Healy. 1987. no 12, plate 5 (describes and reproduces the identical binding of vol. II of this set). This group of bindings was formerly assigned to a single "College Binder"; for reproductions of bindings employing several of the same tools, cf.: Craig, M.J. Irish bookbindings, plate 21; Nixon, H.M. Broxbourne Library, no. 86; Maggs Bros. Cat. 966, no. 115; Foot, M.M. The Henry Davis gift, II, no. 257. Presumably commissioned by William Dunkin of Trinity College; cf. provenance note, below.

Binder's title: Swift's works. Vol. IV.

Provenance: William Dunkin (autograph on t.p., 1734); his "To Miss Betty Gibson with the Dean's works in four volumes, a fable, 1734/5" (autograph poem) inscribed on 2 blank leaves bound in at beginning. Poem published 1769 in Select poetical works of the late William Dunkin, under title "The author to his mistress, with a present," with emendations and the omission of 4 lines of the present ms. Includes the line "The leather turkey, gilding gold" (cf. binding note, above).

Provenance: T.H. Massey (armorial bookplate).

Local Subject

Dunkin, William, 1709?-1765 Provenance.

Massey, T. H. Provenance.

Added Author

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Works. 1735.

Joseph Leathley's Binder. Binder

College Binder. Binder

Dunkin, William, 1709?-1765. Author to his mistress, with a present. 1734.

Added Title

Volume four of the author's works.

Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D., in four volumes.

Drapier's letters to the people of Ireland, against Wood's half-pence.

Research Call Number

Spencer Coll. Irish 1734 93-437