SWIFT, JONATHAN.] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte 1726. 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, joints cracked, ends of spines chipped, corners worn, vol. II lacks a spine label, gilt numerals on spines transposed, modern pigskin-backed folding case, first three leaves of vol. II with very slight wormtrack just catching rule border on title, occasional minor spotting. FIRST EDITION, Teerink's "A" edition with the frontispiece portrait in vol. I in second state (with legend round the oval frame), G6 and 2E8 in vol. II are cancels; engraved portrait, 5 engraved maps and one engraved diagram. Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-6; Teerink 289. Provenance : Martha Blount (1690-1762), her signature on each front pastedown ("her book" added in vol. I); and Michael Blount, her nephew, with the engraved Mapledurham bookplate. AN EVOCATIVE ASSOCIATION COPY. Martha Blount, the great friend of Alexander Pope was the addressee of Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady (London 1735) and the dedicatee of others of his works. She knew other members of the Scriblerus Club which was formed in about 1713 and was composed of Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, Gay, Parnell, Lord Oxford, and Atterbury. Like Pope, she was a Roman Catholic. "Pope's deformity and infirmities would have been obstacles to any project of marriage, but his relation to Martha was the nearest approach in his life to a genuine love affair." ( DNB ). Upon his death, in 1744, he bequeathed her #1,000, sixty of his books, all his household goods and chattels, and the residue of his estate after all the legacies were paid. All of Martha Blount's residual property was left by her will to her nephew, Michael Blount, of Mapledurham near Reading. (2)
SWIFT, JONATHAN.] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte 1726. 2 vols., 8vo, contemporary calf, joints cracked, ends of spines chipped, corners worn, vol. II lacks a spine label, gilt numerals on spines transposed, modern pigskin-backed folding case, first three leaves of vol. II with very slight wormtrack just catching rule border on title, occasional minor spotting. FIRST EDITION, Teerink's "A" edition with the frontispiece portrait in vol. I in second state (with legend round the oval frame), G6 and 2E8 in vol. II are cancels; engraved portrait, 5 engraved maps and one engraved diagram. Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-6; Teerink 289. Provenance : Martha Blount (1690-1762), her signature on each front pastedown ("her book" added in vol. I); and Michael Blount, her nephew, with the engraved Mapledurham bookplate. AN EVOCATIVE ASSOCIATION COPY. Martha Blount, the great friend of Alexander Pope was the addressee of Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady (London 1735) and the dedicatee of others of his works. She knew other members of the Scriblerus Club which was formed in about 1713 and was composed of Swift, Pope, Arbuthnot, Gay, Parnell, Lord Oxford, and Atterbury. Like Pope, she was a Roman Catholic. "Pope's deformity and infirmities would have been obstacles to any project of marriage, but his relation to Martha was the nearest approach in his life to a genuine love affair." ( DNB ). Upon his death, in 1744, he bequeathed her #1,000, sixty of his books, all his household goods and chattels, and the residue of his estate after all the legacies were paid. All of Martha Blount's residual property was left by her will to her nephew, Michael Blount, of Mapledurham near Reading. (2)
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