Dean Swift's literary correspondence, for twenty-four years, from 1714 to 1738
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Type of record: Book
Title: Dean Swift's literary correspondence, for twenty-four years, from 1714 to 1738
Other titles: Correspondence
Classmark: BC Lt/POP
Creator(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Additional creator(s): Gay, John (1685-1732) (Other); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) (Other); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735) (Other); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732) (Other)
Related people: Woodward, John, 1665-1728; Gay, John; Pope, Alexander; Arbuthnot, John; Atterbury, Francis
Publisher: Printed for E. Curll
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1741
Language: English
Size and medium: [4], 310, 6, [4] p., 1 leaf of plates
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/283474
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991001738639705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
At foot of title: "Price 4s. sewed, 5s. bound."
Device on t.p.
Drop-head title p. [229]: A philosophico-critical history of the deluge.
Includes letters from Gay, Pope, Atterbury and Arbuthnot.
Pp. 1-228: "Letters"; 229-310: other pieces, principally Arbuthnot's "Examination of Dr. Woodward's account of the deluge [in his Essay toward a natural history of the earth], 1697, here reprinted as "A philosophico-critical history of the deluge".
Publisher's advertisement: p. [1]-6, [1]-[4] at end.
Indexed in: ESTC T032147; Griffith 534 states that the "Letters" are a reprint of the Dublin edition, with some omissions; Teerink 61.
Additional description
Bound with one other publication in a volume lettered: POPE'S LETTER [sic]. 6. Volume contents: 1. Dean Swift's literary correspondence, 1741. -- 2. An impartial history of the life ... of Mr. John Barber, 1741. One of a set of six volumes, bound and lettered uniformly. Vols. 1-5 of the set comprise Mr Pope's literary correspondence ... from 1704 to 1734 and are shelved accordingly. Wanting: the frontispiece portrait of Swift Curll's catalogue of books (10 pp. at end)
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