Apr 21, 2009 - Sale 2176

Sale 2176 - Lot 171

Price Realized: $ 2,160
?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, [2] pages, including initial leaf (listing "Treatises writ by the same Author" on verso) and final blank. 8vo, red morocco gilt by Riviere & Son; contents unobtrusively washed. Edward Hale Bierstadt bookplate. 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.