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Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)79
Nichols, John (1745-1826)19
Sheridan, Thomas (1719-1788)19
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)11
Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735)9
Gay, John (1685-1732)9
Horace5
Swift, Jonathan4
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-17454
Motte, Benjamin (1738)3

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A tale of a tub : Written for the universal improvement of mankind.... To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's library

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Nutt, John (active 1690?-1711?)

1704

With advertisements on verso of A1. Signatures: A⁶ B-X⁸ Y¹. "Battel" and "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation..." has separate t.p. but pagination is continuous. Anonymous. By J...

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A tale of a tub : written for the universal improvement of mankind : to which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1711

Published anonymously. By Swift. Leaves M2 and N12 blank. "Treatises writ by the same author...": verso of first leaf (recto blank). "A full and true account of the battel...": p. [215]-266, wit...

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The Tripe Club. A satyr. Dedicated to all those who are true friends to Her present Majesty, and her government. To the Church of England, and the succession, as by law established

King, William (1663-1712); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)

1706

Swift's authorship, suggested by the reference to 'A tale of a tub', is generally rejected; the suggestion first made by Nichols that William King (1663-1712) was the author is plausible (Foxon). In...

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Miscellanies : The third volume

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Motte, Benjamin (1738); Bathurst, Charles (1709-1786); Gilliver, Lawton

1736

Anonymous. By Swift, Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. One of three imprint variants or issues of this edition. With advertisements on final page. Signatures: A-I12 A-C12. 71 p. (second count) headed "...

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The Swan tripe-club : a satyr, on the high-flyers, in the year 1705

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); King, William (1663-1712)

1710

In verse. Earlier eds., 1706, had titles "The Tripe club" and "The Swan-tripe club in Dublin." "The Tripe club", probably the earliest ed., had statement "By the author of the Tale of a tub" on titl...

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A tale of a tub : written for the universal improvement of mankind... To which is added, An account of a battel between antient and modern books in St. James's Library

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Wotton, William (1666-1727)

1734

Anon., by J. Swift. Printed in Holland?. "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit": p. [181]-213; "A full and true account of the battel fought last Friday, between the antie...

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A tale of a tub. : Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's Library

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Nutt, John (active 1690?-1711?); Wotton, William (1666-1727)

1710

"A full and true account of the battel fought last Friday, between the antient and the modern books in St. James's library" and "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit" have spe...

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Miscellanies : The second volume

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Motte, Benjamin (1738); Bathurst, Charles (1709-1786)

1736

Signatures: A-M12. Anonymous. By Swift, Pope, Gay and Arbuthnot. Some copies have printer's rules only as ornaments, some have ornaments and two little hands on A2 rather than one hand and one ast...

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A genuine epistle from M-w P-r, Esq; at Paris, to the Reverend J-n S-t :... With a letter to Sir Patrick Lawles, late the Pretender's Nuncio

Prior, Matthew (1664-1721); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Brocade, Timothy; Reynardson, Francis (1725)

1714

M-w P-r = Matthew Prior. J-n S-t = Jonathan Swift. A whig satire in the form of a mock letter from Prior to Swift. Verse. Half-title: 'A farther hue and cry after Dr. Sw----t. Being a collecti...

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Letters, poems, and tales : amorous, satyrical, and gallant. Which passed between several persons of distinction. Now first publish'd from their respective originals, found in the cabinet of the celebrated toast Mrs. Anne Long, since her decease

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Tristram, Thomas (1667-); Wyvill, Sir William; Sedley, Sir Charles (1639?-1701); South, Robert (1634-1716); Breval, John (1680?-1738); Codrington, Christopher (1668-1710); Vanhomrigh, G; Long, Mrs Anne; Chambers, Lady Mary; Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Curll, Edmund (1675-1747); Wharton, Thomas Wharton marquess of (1648?-1715)

1718

Signatures: [A]² B-M⁴ N² B-C⁴ D². Below imprint: (Price Two Shillings.). Book-list (1 p.) at end. Anon., by Jonathan Swift and others. Running title: Miscellanies.

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A cure for the hip : containing miscellaneous poems and translations, on variety of entertaining subjects, and some on remarkable occasions,... With a genuine letter of Bp. Atterbury's, verses by D-n Sw-t, &c. Publish'd from the original that came out of a lady's library, by a gentleman of the Temple

Dawson, William poet; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Atterbury, Francis (1662-1732)

1748

Anonymous. By William Dawson. D-n Sw-t = Dean Swift. First published in [1734] as 'Miscellaneous poems on several occasions'. The bookseller's name is a pseudonym. Apparently a reissue or a ne...

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Squire Bickerstaff detected : or, The astrological impostor convicted

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Congreve, William (1670-1729); Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Yalden, Thomas (1670-1736)

[1708?]

No t.p.; caption title. P.3 headed "A true and impartial account of the proceedings of Isaack Bickerstaff, Esq; against Me___", although the catchword on p.2 is "An". The ascription to Partridge is ...

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