The Select Works of Jonathan Swift. (Including: The Tale of a Tub; Battle of the Books; Gulliver's Travels; Directions to Servants; Polite Conversation; Art of Punning; Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, &c.).
London: Hector M'Lean, 1823. 5 volume set, 5 1/2 inches tall. A delightful full Regency straight grain morocco with wide gilt raised bands and exuberant floral gilt tooling to the panels. A blind and gilt tooled lozenge is framed within a wide blind roll and twin gilt fillets. All edges gilt. There is a neat ink former owner's name, 'Sarah Darell Vawdrey' on the first blanks. Embellished with a portrait and engraved full page illustrations throughout. A charming selection of the works of this great Anglo-Irish writer in a fine binding.
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