Nov 12, 2013 - Sale 2330

Sale 2330 - Lot 188

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
SWIFT, JONATHAN. The Works . . . Accurately revised in Six Volumes . . . With Some Account of the Author's Life, and Notes Historical and Explanatory, By John Hawkesworth. 26 engraved plates; 2 leaves of engraved music. 12 parts in 6 volumes. 4to, 281x220 mm, contemporary calf, rebacked retaining original backstrips, with modern red and green morocco lettering pieces; varying foxing and occasional browning, generally not affecting engraved matter, clean tear across H2 in Volume 5. Armorial bookplates of the merchant and politician Richard Hart Davis (1766-1842). London: C. Bathurst et al., 1755

Additional Details

first hawkesworth quarto edition. 8 further volumes were published from 1764 to 1779. Teerink-Scouten 87.