"STANDING MODELS OF OUR LANGUAGE, AS WELL AS PERPETUAL MONUMENTS OF THEIR AUTHOR'S FAME"
SWIFT, Jonathan. The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift. London: Bell and Daldy, [1866]. Three volumes. Small octavo, 19th-century three-quarter tan calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers and edges. $650.
Collected poems from the Anglo-Irish author of A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels, handsomely bound.
Though most famous for his masterful satire Gulliver's Travels (1726), Swift was also a prolific poet, and wielded his wit in verse as well as prose. This collection of his poems, reprinted from Pickering's "Aldine Edition of the British Poets" series, includes the "Life of Swift" written by the Reverend John Mitford, who describes Swift's works as "standing models of our language, as well as perpetual monuments of their author's fame."
Contents clean; very slight rubbing to bindings. A handsome set.