Apr 11, 2011 - Sale 2243

Sale 2243 - Lot 262

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
[SWIFT, JONATHAN.] A Tale of a Tub . . . To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. [12], 322 pages, including initial leaf listing "Treatises writ by the same Author" on verso; lacks final blank. 8vo, mid-19th-century crimson morocco gilt by Francis Bedford; contents unobtrusively washed. Newton Hall armorial bookplate of the archaeologist Charles Walston (formerly Waldstein, 1856-1927); morocco booklabel of Marshall C. Lefferts. handsome copy. London: John Nutt, 1704

Additional Details

first edition; second state of page 320, with blank space on line 10 after "furor" (but with "uterinus" not inked in). Teerink-Scouten 217; Rothschild 1992.