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Poetical Works

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED ALDINE EDITION OF SWIFT'S POEMS, EXQUISITELY BOUND

SWIFT, Jonathan. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1893. Three volumes.

Later Aldine edition of the poems of Swift, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 15 window-mounted engravings, six hand-colored, splendidly bound in full morocco-gilt with multi-colored morocco inlays in floral designs. $2800.

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Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on… Dr. Jonathan Swift

"CONTAINING SEVERAL SINGULAR ANECDOTES RELATING TO THE CHARACTER AND CONDUCT OF THAT GREAT GENIUS"

(SWIFT, Jonathan) [DELANY, Patrick]. Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on… Dr. Jonathan Swift. Dublin, 1754.

First edition of this defense of Swift’s moral character and clarification of his relationship with his eight-year-old student, “Stella,” appended to which are two new works by Swift “never before publish’d.” $850.

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