Swift, Jonathan
Rare books by Jonathan Swift, including first editions and finely bound copies of Gulliver's Travels and handsome sets of his collected works.
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. 1726
£95,000
First edition, published on 28 October 1726 at the price of 8s. 6d. Swift had completed a full rough draft of his masterpiece by August 1725, and brought it over to England the...
2 volumes, octavo (194 × 120 mm). Contemporary tan panelled calf, red morocco labels, red sprinkled edges. Frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. 1726
£35,000
First Edition, Teerink's A edition with all the necessary points to distinguish it from the two later printings (Teerink AA and B) dated 1726. The first five editions of Gulliver's...
2 volumes, octavo. Recent period-style full red morocco. Frontispiece portrait of Gulliver (state B, as called for), 4 maps and 2 plans. Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. 1726
£5,000
Teerink's "B" edition, with the portrait of Gulliver in second state, as usual. The first three editions of Gulliver's Travels are all octavos published by Benjamin Motte dated 1726...
2 volumes, octavo (178 × 115 mm). Contemporary calf, red and green morocco labels, red speckled edges. Frontispiece portrait, 5 maps, and 1 diagram. Ownership... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, 1755
£3,500
First Hawkesworth edition, which "for a long period supplanted Faulkner's Dublin edition (1735) as the authoritative text of Swift … The life of Swift prefixed to the first...
6 volumes, quarto (280 × 216 mm), each in 2 parts. Attractively bound about 1800 in full diced russia; spine divided into six compartments by double raised bands... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works. 1824
£2,000
Second Scott edition. First published in 1814, Scott's text was based primarily upon the John Nichols edition of 1808, but with the addition of Scott's extensive discursive...
19 volumes, octavo. Contemporary full crimson calf, titles and elaborate tooling to spines gilt, three morocco title labels green and brown, raised bands, twin rule to... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works. 1883-84
£1,800
Second Scott Edition Limited to 750 numbered copies of which this is number 320.
19 volumes, octavo. Contemporary half burgundy morocco, titles to spines gilt, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. Frontispiece portrait. The lightest of... Read more
SWIFT, Jonathan.
Gulliver's Travels. Into Several Remote Nations of the World. c.1890
£175
A handsomely bound copy of Gulliver's Travels.
Quarto (255 × 187 mm). Contemporary brown half calf, black morocco label, decoration to spine gilt and in blind, raised bands, marbled boards, plain coated... Read more
