A Tale Of a Tub

111 Cheapside: Thomas Tegg , 1811. The title continues "To which is added, An Account of a Battle between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. With the Author's Apology, and Explanatory Notes, by W. Wotton and others" Very good condition antiquarian book. Bound in red morocco spine and corners with decorative marbled boards. Gold gilt to the… Read more about this item

Jonathan Swift (1667 – 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, poet, cleric and Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. His most famous works are Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and A Tale of a Tub. He is still regarded as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and his deadpan style caused the term 'Swiftian' to be embedded in… Read more about this item

Ams Pr Inc. Very Good. Columbia University Press; New York, 1930. Hardcover. First edition. Near Fine, very light shelf wear, pages lightly sunned, in a Very Good, some wear/scuff marks, some edge/corner wear, 1" tear to rear bottom panel edge, few small tears along edges, lightly sunned, Dust wrapper. A nice, clean unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6… Read more about this item

London: J M Dent & Co, 1920. Everymans Library edition in green buckram "Library" binding and gilt title border with round loop on spine. No dustwrapper, minor bumping to spine ends and corners of green boards, a very few pieces of pencil marking to the text, otherwise a good clean tight copy. No publication date shown, but this… Read more about this item

London: Printed for John Nutt, , 1704. Against religious factionalism First edition of Swift's first full-length book, a satire on religious factionalism with three brothers representing Roman Catholicism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism. "While Swift's reputation today rests largely on his [Gulliver's] Travels, the work that put him in the center of the literary world of his day was A Tale… Read more about this item

London: Thomas Tegg. London, Thomas Tegg, 1811. Later Edition. Hardback. A very good copy. Text complete, though lacking the plates which I believe were bound in later in most copies. A couple of ms corrections - could be a proof or similar. Bound in boards with a later cloth spine. Boards a little worn. Internally quite well preserved. [9362, Hyraxia… Read more about this item

London: Nutt, 1704. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Ist edition Ist printing with the uncorrected text and the blank space on page 320 where the word "uterinus" was later inserted (a 2nd and 3rd edition were published the same year). His first major book, a classic satire on religious controversy, as exemplified in the quarrels between Saint Peter,… Read more about this item

London, England: Oxford University Press, 1958. First of this edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Oxford, 1958. First of the second edition which has been "completely reset" by the publisher and substantially amended introduction and notes, with revisions to the text. 374pp with 77 additional pages of notes, bibliographical and historical. Very good. Light rubbing to a few letters on… Read more about this item

London.: Charles Bathurst., 1760. Early edition. First printed in 1704. . Hard. Good. 12mo. 7 1/4".. Illustrated with 8 plates.. Good. Ex-library. Quarter morocco library binding. Minor foxing to outermost leaves. Evenly toned. xvii [1] 190pp.

[S. L. ] : J. Simon Publisher, 1979. First Edition. Hardback. An exceptional copy; fine in the original gilt-blocked, two-tone cloth. Complete with a fine, stiff-card slipcase. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. ; 205 pages; Description: xvi, 205 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Thus.

n.p.:: Joseph Simon,. Near Fine. 1979. Hardcover. 0934710007 . First edition thus. Near fine in burgundy and tan cloth with gilt lettering. No slipcase. .

London: printed for John Nutt , 1704. Book measures 20x12.cm. [12],322pp. Bound in full panelled calf. At some time the book has been rebacked, retaining the panelled boards, and original title label, raised bands. Boards rubbed, scuffed, some wear loss on corners. Generally binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, sellotape along inner margin of frontis booklist and title page.… Read more about this item

London: John Nutt. Full leather with six raised bands on the spine and title slip and decorations in the compartments. Second Edition Corrected. From the library of William Alfred Eddy with his bookplate. Eddy edited books of Swift's works when he was a literary scholar and professor at Dartmouth College. He later was President of Hobart College and William Smith… Read more about this item

Columbia University Press, New York NY,, 1930. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece and woodcut illustrations in the text; green broad-weave cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy.

London: George Routlegde and Sons, 1889. Book. Good (Book Condition). Hardcover. A good copy only. Wear to crown and foot of spine, hinges started and pages tanned. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.].

London: John Nutt, 1704. To which is added An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. The Second Edition Corrected. Pp. [xii]+322; small cr. 8vo; modern brown morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt compartments between raised bands, boards with decorative gilt border and central gilt decoration; later endpapers and binder's blanks,… Read more about this item

Oxford, 1941. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET.

London : Printed for Charles Bathurst, 1768-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 16, 80, xxx, [80], 340 pp. 8 pl. Later full leather binding, gilt ruled and blind tooled. 5 raised bands. Top edge gilt. Gilt dentelle flourish. Marbled end pages. GOod binding and cover. Wear to joints and extremities. Clean, unmarked pages. <br> First published in 1704, Swift's… Read more about this item

London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. [c.1909]. First Edition. Hardcover. An undated, probable first Everyman's Library edition (1909) offering satirical essays on a variety of subjects by Ireland's Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), probably best known for his "Gulliver's Travels."… Read more about this item

1711. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket, as issued. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A TALE OF A TUB with A FULL AND TRUE ACCOUNT FOUGHT LAST FRIDAY BETWEEN THE ANTIENT AND THE MODERN BOOKS IN ST. JAMES'S LIBRARY and with A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE MECHANICAL OPERATION OF THE SPIRIT IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND , A FRAGMENT by… Read more about this item