The Works of Jonathan Swift.

SWIFT, Jonathan.

$350.00

Item Number: 141076

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1864.

Finely bound example of the Swift’s complete works, with a memoir of the author by Thomas Roscoe. Royal octavo, two volumes, bound in full polished calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, double gilt ruling to the panels, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, tissue-guarded frontispiece of Swift to volume one. In very good condition. Bookplates.

Anglo-Irish satirist, author, and Anglican cleric Jonathan Swift is best remembered for his 1726 prose satire Gulliver's Travels and is listed in the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language. "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame." "Of all Swift's writings it best shows the merits of his mind and his gifts of expression". It is important to realize that it could be written only by one who had the highest ideals for human achievement and who despaired of the achieving" (Baugh et al., 865-66).