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A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is added, An Account of a Battle between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James’s Library. With the Author’s Apology and Explanatory Notes

SWIFT, Jonathan

[Together with] A Discourse concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit in a Letter to a Friend. A Fragment

REMARKABLY CRISP, CLEAN COPY

Published: Printed for C. Bathurst in Fleet-Street, 1751

Stock code: 51452

Price: £325.00

Published as the first volume of Swift's Works, but complete in itself. NCBEL II, 1058; Teerink 82; Temple Scott 1058. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.