Swift (Jonathan) A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, second issue, 1738

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[Swift (Jonathan)] A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, second issue, bowl of fruit as centre headpiece of page i, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, 1 f. advertisement leaf before title, ownership ink inscription to title, occasional cracking to gutter, light occasional foxing, heavy browning to endpapers and further ink marks, hinges broken, contemporary calf, heavily rubbed with some losses, B. Motte and C. Bathurst, 1738; The History of the Last Four Years of the Queen, first edition, occasional light foxing, ink stains to fore-edge, front free endpaper starting to split at gutter, contemporary calf rebacked, rubbed to extremities and corners, A. Millar, 1758; with two others by Swift being Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, 1711, and The Intelligencer, 1729, worming, foxing, contemporary calf rubbed, hinges broken, front board of Intelligencer detached, [Teerink 761a, 809], 8vo. (4)

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