Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift...In a Series of Letters...to his Son, the Honorable Hamilton Boyle

by Jonathan Swift, Boyle, Earl of Orrery John

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Second London Edition, corrected. Engraved portrait of Swift by Ravenet. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary calf. Worn, title-page a bit soiled, final blank lacking, else a nice clean copy. Item #8115 The first attempt to give an account of the life and work of Swift. Orrery’s book is, according to the DNB, “full of rancour and gridging criticism” – even though he and Swift had been good

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