SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, with the consequences they had upon both those states . London: John Nutt, 1701.
SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, with the consequences they had upon both those states . London: John Nutt, 1701. 4° (192 x 149mm). Final blank. (Waterstaining at inner margins, final blank with pieces torn away.) Disbound; modern grey paper folder with title label. Provenance : J.G. Wigg (early identification of the author on title and two-line signed bibliographical note on title verso). FIRST EDITION, SECOND (CORRECTED) IMPRESSION, OF SWIFT’S FIRST POLITICAL TRACT , a defence of the Whig Lords, Somers, Orford, Halifax and Portland, who had been impeached by the House of Commons over the partition treaties concerning the Spanish empire. Ross and Woolley consider it belongs to that end of the spectrum of Swift’s writing occupied by the Tale of a Tub . Making “free use” of historical allegory, it appeals “to his literate audience’s sense of reading as a game, and finds similarities and parallels in ancient history for a bewildering array of details and figures on the contemporary political scene” (Swift, J. Major Works , ed. A. Ross and D. Woolley (Oxford, 2008) 612n). Teerink in Library , 5th series, IV, 1949, 201 distinguishes two issues of the first edition, x and w, printed mainly but not entirely from different settings of type; and concludes that w was the later impression, partly reset to meet an unexpected demand. Frank H. Ellis, in his 1967 edition of the work, shows that this second impression "corrects a dozen errors" present in the first (p. 184). Rothschild 1991; Teerink 478.
SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, with the consequences they had upon both those states . London: John Nutt, 1701.
SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and Commons in Athens and Rome, with the consequences they had upon both those states . London: John Nutt, 1701. 4° (192 x 149mm). Final blank. (Waterstaining at inner margins, final blank with pieces torn away.) Disbound; modern grey paper folder with title label. Provenance : J.G. Wigg (early identification of the author on title and two-line signed bibliographical note on title verso). FIRST EDITION, SECOND (CORRECTED) IMPRESSION, OF SWIFT’S FIRST POLITICAL TRACT , a defence of the Whig Lords, Somers, Orford, Halifax and Portland, who had been impeached by the House of Commons over the partition treaties concerning the Spanish empire. Ross and Woolley consider it belongs to that end of the spectrum of Swift’s writing occupied by the Tale of a Tub . Making “free use” of historical allegory, it appeals “to his literate audience’s sense of reading as a game, and finds similarities and parallels in ancient history for a bewildering array of details and figures on the contemporary political scene” (Swift, J. Major Works , ed. A. Ross and D. Woolley (Oxford, 2008) 612n). Teerink in Library , 5th series, IV, 1949, 201 distinguishes two issues of the first edition, x and w, printed mainly but not entirely from different settings of type; and concludes that w was the later impression, partly reset to meet an unexpected demand. Frank H. Ellis, in his 1967 edition of the work, shows that this second impression "corrects a dozen errors" present in the first (p. 184). Rothschild 1991; Teerink 478.
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