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Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
Published 27 Nov. 1726 - selling 10,000 copies within the first week (Gutenberg Project)

Prose
Contemporary publications
  • A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions between the Nobles and the Commons in Athens and Rome (1701).
  • A Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind, To Which is Added, a Full and True Account of the Battle Fought Last Friday Between the Ancient and the Modern Books in St. James’s Library (London: J. Nutt 1704; rep. 1705 [3 imps.]); and Do. [another edn.] A Tale of a Tub Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James’s Library [ …] The Fifth Edition, with the Author’s Apology and Explanatory Notes. By W. W--tt--n, B. D. and others (London: for John Nutt 1710) [see details], incls. “A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter to a Friend: A Fragment”.
  • The Story of the Injured lady: Being a True Picture of Scotch Perfidy, Irish Poverty, and English Partiality [written 1707], with letters and poems never before printed (London:M. Cooper 1746), iv, 68p., 8o. ; and Do. as The Story of the Injured Lady: Written by herself. In a letter to her friend, with his answer: now occasionally re-published [...] with a short preface by A. Freeman [?Charles Lucas], barber and citizen of Dublin (Dublin: printed for James Byrn 1749), 15, [1]pp., 8o.
  • The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions, being an account of the death of Mr. Partrige, the almanack-maker, upon the 29th instant, In a letter to a person of honour (London 1708). 4pp., 4o. [2nd of the “Bickerstaff Papers”, 1708-09; as infra].
  • A Letter from a Member of the House of Commons in Ireland, Concerning the Sacramental Test (1708, 1709).
  • A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Reformation of Manners (1709) [on the Test Act].
  • An Argument To Prove, That the Abolishing of Christianity in England, May, as Things now Stand, be Attended with some Inconveniencies, and Perhaps, not Produce those Many Good Effects Proposed Thereby (1711).
  • The Sentiments of a Church-of-England Man with Respect to Religion and Government (1711).
  • The Conduct of the Allies (1711).
  • Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue; in a Letter To the Most Honourable Robert Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, Lord High Treasurer of Great Britain (London: Benjamin Tooke 1712) [pamph.; see copy in Ricorso Library, attached].
  • Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty (1712).
  • The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen (1714).
  • The Publick Spirit of the Whigs: set forth in their generous encouragement of the author of the crisis (London: T. Cole 1714), 39, [1]pp., 8vo.
  • Travels into Several Remote Pations of the World: In Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships, 2 vols. (London: Benjamin Motte 1726), xvi, 148; [6], 164; [6], 155, [1]; [8], 199, [1]pp., ill. [7 lvs. of pls., port., 8o; Do. [another edn.] (Dublin: printed by & for J. Hyde), 1726 [with some corrections]; and Do. [rev. edn.] (London: Benj. Motte 1727) [publ. 25 Nov., 1727]; generally known as Gulliver’s Travels; see extracts under Quotations, infra].
  • A Short View of the State of Ireland [written 1720] (Dublin: Sarah Harding 1727-28), 15, [1]pp, 8vo [15+19 cm.], and Do. (Dublin: C. Daniell [1728]), 17cm. [another edn., as infra].
  • A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufacture, in Cloaths and Furntiure of Houses, &c., Utterly Rejecting and Renouncing Every Thing wearable that comes from England (Dublin: E. Waters 1720), 15pp.
  • The Present Miserable State of Ireland: In a Letter from a Gentleman in Dublin to his Friend in London ([Dublin]: Sarah Harding 1721), 2pp.[printed in London; rep. in Dublin]; rep. as Do., his friend S.R.W. in London, Wherein is Briefly Stated the Causes and Heads of all our Woes (Dublin: 1735), 8pp., woodcut port. [signed May 1735 on p.8; TCD & Cambridge Libs.]
  • [attrib.,] A Letter to a Young Gentleman, Lately entered into Holy Orders. By a Person of Quality [2nd edn.] (London 1721) [1st edn. As A Letter from a Lay-Patron].
    • The Drapier’s Letters (1724-25)
    • A Letter to the Shop Keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-People of Ireland, Concerning the Brass Half-Pence coined by Mr Woods, with a Design to have them Pass in this Kingdom […] by M. B. Drapier (Dublin: J. Harding 1724), 16, 8o. [Letter I].
    • A Letter to Mr. Harding the Printer upon occasion of a paragraph in his news-paper of Aug. 1st. Relating to Mr. Woods’s half-pence. By M. B. Drapier. Author of the Letter to the shop-keepers, &c Dublin: John Harding [1724]), 16pp., 8o. [Letter II].
    • Some Observations upon a Paper, Call’d “The Report of the Committee: of the most honourabe the Privy-Council in England, relating to Wood’s half-pence, by M. B. Drapier [4th edn. corr.] (Dublin: John Harding [1724]), 32pp., 8o. [Letter III].
    • A Letter to the Whole People of Ireland by M. B. Drapier, author of the Letter to the Shop-Keepers, &c. [by] M. B. Drapier (Dublin: John Harding 1724), 22pp. [Letter IV].
    • A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Molesworth, by M.B. Drapier, author of the letter to the shop-keepers [ ...] &c. (Dublin: John Harding [1724]), vii, [1], 22pp., 8vo. [Letter V].
  • Fraud Detected, or, The Hibernian Patriot: Containing All the Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland, on Wood’s Coinage [...]: to which are added Prometheus, a poem, also a new poem to the Drapier [...] and the songs sung at the Drapier’s Club [...]: with a preface explaining the usefulness of the whole (Dublin: reprinted & sold by George Faulkner 1725), [2], vi, [7]-14, 222, [2]pp., 12o. [Letters I-IV; some with sep. t.p.; Goldsmith’s Lib. Cat. 6396; Hanson 3484; Aust. Nat. Lib. Cat. dates 1725].
  • An Answer to a Paper Called a Memorial of the Poor Inhabitants, Tradesmen and Labourers of the Kingdom of Ireland (1728).
  • The Hibernian Patriot; Being a Collection of the Drapier’s letters [ ... &c.] (London: A. Moor 1730), 264pp.
  • A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Public (Dublin: Sarah Harding 1729), 16pp., 8o., and Do. (London, Middle Temple: Weaver Bickerton 1730), 23, [1]pp. [printed in Dublin; rep. in Miscellanies, 1732].
  • Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities in the city of Dublin (Dublin: George Faulkner 1732), 27, [1]pp., 8o.; rep. as City Cries, Instrumental and Vocal: or, An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions, and Enormities, in London and Dublin by the Rev. Dr. Swift, D.S.P.D. ([London]: J. Roberts, 1732), 30,[2]pp., 8o. [?also as Maxims Controlled]
  • A Serious and Useful Scheme, to make an Hospital for Incurables, of Universal Benefit to all his Majesty’s Subjects, to which is added A Petition of the Footmen in and about Dublin by the Revd. Dr. J.S., D.S.P.D (Dublin: George Faulkner 1733), 36pp., 8o., and Do., as A serious and useful scheme, to make an hospital for incurables, of universal benefit to all His Majesty’s subjects, occasioned by a report, that the estate of Richard Norton Esq. was to be appointed by Parliament for such an endowment. To which is added, a petition of the footmen in and about Dublin, by a celebrated author in Ireland [i.e., J. Swift] (London: J. Roberts 1733), [2], 34pp., 8o.
  • A New Miscellany for the year 1734. Part I: Containing I. An epistle to a lady, who desired the author to make verses on her in the heroick stile; 2. On reading Dr. Young's satires called "The Universal Passion; 3. On Poetry: A Rhapsody. 4. On the words, Brother-Protestants and Fellow-Christians. ([London] 1734), [2], 23, [3], 25-48pp., 20cm./8°. 11 pieces in verse, of which the 2 poems in Part I are by Swift; Pt. II has a separate titlepage.
  • On Poetry: A Rhapsody (Printed at Dublin & reprinted at London: sold by J. Hugginson, next to Kent's Coffee-House, near Serjeant's-Inn, in Chancery-Lane; and at the Booksellers and Pamphlet-shops, 1733) [price 1s.; see Cadenus Press edn., infra].
  • A Proposal for Giving Badges to the Beggars in all the Parishes of Dublin, by the Dean of St. Patrick’s (Dublin: George Faulkner 1737), 25, [3]pp., 8o., ill. [woodcut port. of M. B. Drapier.]
  • A Compleat Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, According to the Most Polite Mode and Method, now used at Court, and in the Best Companies of England. In Several Dialogues, By Simon Wagstaff. Esq. [pseud.] (London: Printed for B. Motte and C. Bathurst 1738), lxxxvi, 21pp., 8o., and Do.: A New Edition. By Dr. Jonathan Swift (London: sold by R. Stanton, P. Atchison, W. Dickson, & H. Salmon 1779), 212pp., 1 pl., port.
  • On the Wisdom of This World [q.d.]
  • Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage (edns. in 1759, 1773, 1789, 1790, &c.; also in Reflexions on courtship and marriage: In two letters to a friend. Wherein a practicable plan is laid down for obtaining ... conjugal felicity. To which is annexed A letter to a very young lady on her marriage, by Dr Swift, with two discourses on jealousy by [...] Joseph Addison (London: J. James 1759), iv, 60, 15, [1][pp., 1 pl., port., 12o.
  • Thoughts on Religion [recte] The sermons of Dr. J. Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin: To which is prefixed the author’s life: together with his prayer for Stella, his thoughts on, and project for the advancement of religion, 2 vols. (London: R. Dampier, J. Thompson, W. Manson, T. Davidson, & nd P. Watson [1790]), 12o.
  • Thoughts on Various Subjects [q.d.]
  • Miscellanies by Swift, Arbuthnot, Pope, and Gay, 13 vols. (London: Charles Bathurst 1745-48), 12o., in which A Tale of a Tub [in the 11th edition] and Travels into several remote nations of the world [in the 5th edn., corr.], Vol 11 (1747).
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Miscellaneous
  • “A Meditation upon a Broom-stick: According to the Style and Manner of the Honourable Robert Boyle’s Meditations” (1703).
  • “On the Corruption of the English Tongue”, in The Tatler 230 (28 Sept 1710) [and cf. “Proposal for Correcting [...] the English Tongue [... &c.]”, 1712 - and copy Ricorso Library, attached).
  • “The Art of Political Lying”, in The Examiner 14 (9 Nov. 1710) [ copy in Ricorso Library, attached].
  • The Tatler 5 (23-27 Jan. 1711) [Harrison’s continuation].
  • Martin Scriblerus [pseud.], Memoirs (written 1712-14; publ. 1741) [with Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, Parnell, Gay, and the Earl of Oxford].
  • Martin Scriblerus [pseud.], Miscellanies (1727-32).
  • “A Tritical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind” (1707) [sic. ?err. for critical; note opening phrase, ‘BEIGN [sic] so great a lover of Antiquities ...’; vide Swift Archive online].
  • “Remarks upon a Book Intituled ‘The Rights of the Christian Church, &c.’” (1708) [on Milton’s Divorce Tracts].

See also Jonathan Swift and Thomas Sheridan: The Intelligencer, ed. James Woolley (Oxford: Clarendon 1992), xv, 363pp.
Correspondence
  • John Hawkesworth [LL.D, ed., Letters written by Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin, and several of his friends from the year 1703 to 1740: published from the originals; with notes explanatory and historical 3 vols. [5th edn.] (London: printed for T. Davies; R. Davis; L. Davis & C. Reymers; and J. Dodsley 1767).
  • Stanley Lane-Poole, ed., with commentary and notes, Letters and journals of Jonathan Swift , sel. & ed., with commentary & notes [The Parchment Library] (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co. 1885), xv, 292pp. [see details]
  • F. Elrington Ball, ed., The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, 6 vols. (London: Bell, 1910-1914) [with a “Life”].
  • D. Nichol Smith, ed., The Letters of Swift to Charles Ford (Oxford: Clarendon 1934).
  • Harold Williams, ed., Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1963-65) [Vols. IV & V rev. by David Woolley] (1972).
  • Frank Ellis, ed., Swift vs. Mainwaring: The Examiner and the Medley (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1985).
  • David Woolley, ed., The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D. (1998- ) [see details].
Journal to Stella - Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley (1710-11; 1st publ. 1766-68 post.; another edn. 1784)
  • Journal to Stella, intro. by George A. Aitken (London: Methuen 1901), xxxviii, 596pp.
  • Journal to Stella (London & Glasgow: George Newnes 1904), xii, 713pp. [var. London & NY]
  • Journal to Stella, with notes of Sir Walter Scott (London: G. Routledge; NY: Dutton 1905), viii, 449pp. [16 cm]; Do. [The Universal Library (spine)] (Routledge & Sons 1940), 449pp.
  • The Journal to Stella, AD1710-13, ed. & annot. Frederick Ryland (London: G. Bell & Sons. 1905; rep. 1913), xv, 507pp. [‘The present edition . was first published in 1897 as vol. II of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift in Bohn’s standard library, and is now issued in Bohn’s popular library.’]
  • Journal to Stella, newly deciphered and edited by J.K. Moorhead [John Kirby, pseud.]; pref. by Sir Walter Scott [Everyman’s Library, 757] (London: Dent & Sons., Ltd. 1924; rep. 1940),  xxx, 445pp.
  • Journal à Stella, trad. Renée Villoteau, preface par Janine Bouissounouse (Paris: Gallimard 1939), 249pp.
  • Journal to Stella, ed. Harold Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1948) [later embodied in Prose Works (1968) Vol. II], vi, 378-801pp.
  • Journal to Stella [Pocket Classics (Academy Chicago Pub 1986), q.pp.. 
  • Abigail Williams, ed., A Journal to Stella: Letters to Esther Johnson and Rebecca Dingley, 1710-17 [The Cambridge edition of the works of Jonathan Swift, 9] (Cambridge UP 2013), lxxxix, 800 pages, ill.; 24 cm.
[See image from the original letter in Journal to Stella, under Notes - as infra.]
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Collected Editions
  • Works of Jonathan Swift, 4 vols. (Dublin: George Faulkner 1734) [dated 1735; see details].
  • The Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D., in Six Volumes [6 vols.] (Dublin: George Faulkner 1742[-1744]) [see details],
  • Dr. [John] Hawkesworth, ed., Works of Jonathan Swift, 12 vols (1755), 8o., and Do. [as] The Life and Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., 20 vols. (London (1764-79) [see details].
  • The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., arranged by Thomas Sheridan, AM, 17 vols. (London: W. Strahan et al. 1784) [dedicated to Henry Grattan], and Do., revised by John Nichols, FSA, 19 vols. (London 1801, 1804, 1808); Do. [Half-title: Dean Swift’s works in nineteen volumes]; A new edition, corr. and rev. by John Nichols (London: Printed for J. Johnson 1801), [see details].
  • Thomas Roscoe, ed., The Works of Jonathan Swift - Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published, with a Memoir by Roscoe (London: Henry G. Bohn 1853), 880pp. in 2 vols., ill. [front. port. in Vol. I and fold-out facs. of orig. letters between Swift and a Dr. Hawkshaw]; Do. facs. rep. Nabu 2010]; also Vol. I: The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift [in2 vols. Works], With Copious Notes and Additions, and A Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe; Do., as The Complete Works, ed. Thomas Roscoe (London: Bell & Daldy 1869); another edn. ([London:] R. Worthington 1884), 658pp
  • Sir Walter Scott, ed., The Works […] Containing Additional Letters, Tracts, Poems, not Hitherto Published, with Notes and a Life, 19 vols. (Edinburgh & London: Constable 1814, 1821), and Do. [2nd edn], 19 vols. (Boston 1883).
  • Temple Scott, ed., The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D. 12 vols. (London: Bell 1897-1908) [var. Bohn Library, 14 vols.].
  • Herbert J. Davis, ed., The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift [Shakespeare Head Edn.] 16 vols. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1939-74) [see details]; of which Vol. 12 is Irish Tracts, 1728-1733 and incls. “The Drapier’s Letters”; 405pp.].
  • William A. Eddy, ed., Satires and Personal Writings by Jonathan Swift (London & NY: OUP 1932), xxii, 499pp. [see contents].
  • Robert A. Greenberg & William Bowman Piper, eds., The Writings of Jonathan Swift: Authoritative Texts, Backgrounds, Criticism [Norton Critical Edition] (NY: Norton 1973).
  • Claude Rawson & Ian Higgins, eds., The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift (NY: W. W. Norton 2007, 2010), xxx, 904pp. [earlier as The Basic Writings of Jonathan Swift, 2002].
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Single works (schol. editions)
  • John Hayward, ed., Swift: Gulliver’s Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse (London: Nonesuch Press [Bloomsbury] 1934), and Do. [rep. edn.] (Nonesuch Press 1944; NY: Random House 1944), 686pp.
  • Herbert Davis, ed., The Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland against Receiving Wood’s Halfpence (Oxford: Clarendon 1935).
  • Carl Van Doren, ed. & intro., The Portable Swift (NY: Viking 1948); Do. [pb. edn.] (1956, with 12 reps. to 1975); Do. (Harmondworth: Penguin Books 1977), 601pp.
  • John Hayward, ed., Selected Prose (London: Crescent Press 1949).
  • Evelyn Hardy, Selected Writings of Jonathan Swift (London: Falcon Press 1950), 87pp.
  • A. C. Guthkelch & D. Nichol Smith, eds., A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books [2nd edn.] (London: OUP 1958).
  • C. J. Rawson, ed. & intro, Swift [Focus Ser.] (London: Sphere Books 1971), 270pp. [Bibl. pp.265-270].
  • Robert Mahony, ed., “On Poetry: A Rhapsody”, in Irish Writings from the Age of Swift, Vol. VII: Different Styles of Poetry, Verse by Lord Roscommon, Thomas Parnell, and Jonathan Swift [Irish Writings in the Age of Swift, No. 8] (Dublin: Cadenus Press MCMLXXVIII [1978]), pp.82-123 [Intro., pp.82-99]; text pp.103-23 with facs. front. port. [The Reverend Dr. J: Swift D.St.P.D.; G. Vertue, sculpt.] and facs. t.p., [pp.100-02] - see extract under Quotations, infra.
  • Joseph McMinn, ed., Swift’s Irish Pamphlets: An Introductory Selection (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe 1991).
  • Angus Ross & David Woolley, Major Works [Oxford Classics Ser.] (OUP 2003), 768pp.
  • Claude [Julien] Rawson, ed., Gulliver’s Travels, with notes by Ian Higgins [Oxford world’s classics; New edn.] (Oxford: OUP 2005, 2008), lix, 362pp., ill., maps.
  • Carole Fabricant, ed. & intro., A Modest; Proposal and Other Writings by Jonathan Swift (London: Penguin 2009), 464pp.
  • Marcus Walsh, ed., A Tale of a Tub and Other Works (Cambridge UP 2010), 681pp. [incls. Edmund Curll’s Key and William Wotton’s Observations].
Allied texts
  • Lemuel Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Compendiously methodized, for publick benefit; with observations and explanatory notes throughout (London: [Henry Curll] 1726), 5 pt., 8°. [being a reissue of A Key, being observations and explanatory notes, upon the travels of Lemuel Gulliver. By Signor Corolini, a noble Venetian now residing in London. In a letter to Dean Swift. Translated from the Italian original; The Brobdingnagians. Being a key to Gulliver’s voyage to Brobdingnag. In a second letter to Dean Swift , signed C.D.M.; The Flying Island, &c. Being a key to Gulliver’s voyage to Laputa ... In a third letter to Dean Swift , C. D. M.; and The Kingdom of Horses. Being a key to Gulliver’s voyage to the Houyhnhnms. In a fourth letter to Dean Swift, C. D. M..
  • Gulliver Decypher’d: or remarks on a late book, intitled, Travels into several remote nations of the world. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. Vindicating the reverend Dean on whom it is maliciously father’d. With some probable conjectures concerning the real author (London: J. Roberts [1727]), xii, [2], 49, [1]pp., 8°. [also on microfilm by Woodbridge, CT: Research Publications, Inc., 1986].
Parodies (sel.)
  • incl. Matthew Hodgart, [ed. & notes - but actually author], A New Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms: Being the Fifth Part of the Travels into Several Remote Parts of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships, Wherein the Author Returns and Finds a New State of Liberal horses and Revolting Yahoos; from an Unpublished Manuscript (London: Duckworth 1969; Pb. 1971), 91pp., ill. [map.]
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Bibliographies
  • Herman Teerink, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift DD (Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1937), 434pp., and Do. A. H. Scouten, ed. [2d rev. edn. rev. & corr. by Teerink] (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP 1963; rep. 2002), 453pp., ill. [front. t.p. facing Dr Lemuel Gulliver [available at Internet Archive - online; and see note, details].
  • Louis A. Landa & James E. Tobin, Jonathan Swift: A List of Critical Studies Published from 1895 to 1945 (NY: Cosmopolitan Science & Art Service 1945).
  • James J. Stathis, A Bibliography of Swift Studies 1945-1965 (Nashville: Vanderbilt UP 1967).
  • David Vieth, Swift’s Poetry, 1900-1980: An Annotated Bibliography (NY: Garland Publ. 1982).
  • Richard H. Rodino, Swift Studies, 1965-1980: An Annotated Bibliography (NY: Garland Publ. 1984).

Note: Teerink’s, A Bibliography [... &c.] incls. a chart of George Faulkner’s Swiftian publications per number of vols. & year (p.45). [See espec. [Coll. Works - sub-heading:] ’Faulkner&146;s Editions, 1735 &c.”, p.22-28.]

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Bibliographical details

A TALE / of a / TUB / Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind - Diu multumque desideratum - To which is added / An Account of a Battel / between the / Antient and Modern Books / in St. James’s Library / Basima eacabasa irraurista diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi. Iren. Lib. I. G. 18. - ... Juvat novos [a]dcerpere flores, / Insignemque meo capiti petere inde oranam. Unde prius nulla vellarunt tempora Musae. Lucret. / The fifth Edition: with the Author’s Apology and Explanatory Notes. By W. W--tt--on, B. D. and others. (London: printed for John Nutt near Stationers-Hall. M DCCX [1710]). Facing ’An Apology [... &c.]

PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: ‘Treatises wrote [sic] by the same Author, most of them mentioned in the following discourses; which will be speedily published. [The list:] A character of the present Set of Wits in this Island. / A Panegyrical Essay upon the Number three. A Dissertation upon the principal Productions of Grub-Street. / Lectures upon a Dissection of Human Nature. / A Panegyrick upon the World. / An analytical Discourse upon Zeal, Histori-theo-physi-logically considered. / A general History of Ears. / A modest Defence of the proceedings of the Rabble in all Ages. / A Description of the Kingdom of Absurdities. / A Voyage into England, by a Person of Quality in Terra Australis incognita, translated from the original. / A Critical Essay upon the Art of Canting, Philosophically, Physically, and Musically considered.

[t.p. on verso:] A TALE of a TUB. / Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind - Diu multumque desideratum - To which is a added, / An Account of a Battel / between the / Antient and Modern Books / in St. James’s Library / Basima eacabasa eanaa irraurista diarba da caeotaba fobor camelanthi. Iren. Lib. I. G. 18. - ... Juvat novos decerpere flores, / Insignemque meo capiti petere inde coranam, / Unde prius nulla vellarunt tempora Musae. Lucret. / The fifth Edition: with the Author’s Apology and Explanatory Notes. By W. W--tt--on, B. D. and others. London: printed for John Nutt near Stationers-Hall. M DCCX [1710].

[CONTENTS:] Apology (June 3 1709 Postscript [25]; To the Right Honourable John Lord Somers [signed by The Bookseller [6pp.;unnum.]; The Bookseller to the Reader [2pp.: "It is now six years since these papers came into first into my Hand, ..."]. The Epistle Dedicatory ... to ... His Royal Highness / Prince Posterity [1-12; dated Dec. 1697]; the preface [13-31]; A Tale of a Tub, &c. Sect. I: The introduction, incl. hiatus in MS, p.42 [33-54]; Sect. II: [55-79] Sect. III: A Digression concerning Criticks [80-97]; Sect. IV. A TALE of a TUB [98-121]; Sect. V: A Digression in the Modern Kind [122-133]; Sect. VI: A TALE of A TUB [134-147]; Sect. VII: A Digression in praise of Digressions [148-157]; Sect. VIII: A TALE of A TUB [158-171]; A Digresssion concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonweatlth. [172-297]; Sect. X. A TALE of a TUB [198-234]; The Conclusion [235-241]. A Full and True Account / OF THE / BATTEL / Fought last FRIDAY / Between the / Antient and the Modern / Books / in / ST. James’s / Library / London printed in the Year MDCCX [1710] the Bookseller to the Reader [2pp.]; The Preface of the Author [2pp.] A Full andTrue ACCOUNT of the BATTEL Fought last FRIDAY, &c. [249-99 [ending and, now *** [&c.] Desunt caetera.] A Discourse / Concering the / Mechanical Operation / of the / Spirit / in a / Letter / to a FRIEND. / A Fragment. London: Printed in the Year, MDCCX [1710].

The Booksellers’s Advertisement 1p. A Discourse [&c.] 305-44. Note that the citation from Irenaeus in the title-page is admitted to be ‘all but gibberish’ in a ftn. to the Epistle Ded. Copy in Princess Grace Irish Library, Monaco and transcribed there by BS. See also 3rd edition (1704) donated by Miss Emma F. I. Dunston to to the Bodleian Library - as attached, or read text - online.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. To which are prefix’d, several copies of verses explanatory and commendatory; never before printed [2nd Edn.] 2 vols. (London 1727), port., 4 pls.; Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver [4th Edn. corr.] (London: printed for Charles Bathurst 1742), [12], 351, [1]pp., 6 pls., maps, 8vo.; Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World: In four parts. By Lemuel Gulliver [6th Edn., corr.] London: Charles Bathurst; sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, R. Dodsley & W. Bowyer 1751), viii, 296pp., pls., maps, 8o.; The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver, into Several Remote Nations of the World: Who was First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships. In four parts. (Edinburgh: C. Elliot 1787), 352pp., 10 pls., maps, 12o., and Do. [same edn.] (Falkirk: Thomas Cheap 1787), 352pp., 12o.; Travels into several remote nations of the world [...] In two volumes [The Novelist’s Magazine, Vol. IX] (London: Harrison & Co. M DCC XCII [1792] 2 vols., 140pp., engravings [4 lvs. of pls.], 8o.; Travels of Lemuel Gulliver (Edinburgh: A. Jardine 1803); Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Lemuel Gulliver / by Jonathan Swift (London: for J. Johnson ... [& 24 others], 1803, xii, 334pp., [2] lvs .of pls., 16 cm; Do. (Edinburgh: Oliver & Co. 1806), 295pp., and Do. (Gainsborough: H. Mozley 1809), viii, 267pp.; Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World [...] With copious notes, a life of the author, and an essay on satiricial fiction, by W. C. Taylor (London: Hayward & Moore 1840), lx, 508pp., 8o., ill. by Grandville; Travels into several remote nations of the world by Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon and then a captain of several ships [...] with a prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury (London: John C. Nimmo 1886), ill. [180 col. & 60 b&w.], 27 cm.; The travels of Lemuel Gulliver [...] with an introduction by Shane Leslie and ills. by Alexander King ([NY:] Limited Editions Club 1929), x, 293pp., col. ills., 29 cm.; No. 298 of 1,500; follows Motte’s 1st Edn. of 1726 with corrections from Ford’s copy; Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World [...], 2 vols. (Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press 1925), ill. by David Jones [woodcuts, some col.]; The travels of Lemuel Gulliver [Pts. I & II], ed. with intro. & notes by F. W. Payne [London English Texts Ser.] (London UP [1925]), xiii, 221pp., 8o.; The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput & Brobdingnag by Dean Swift (London: Folio Society 1948), xx, 153pp., [Edward Bawden , ill.; 12 lvs. of pls., col.] (For full text, see “Library / Irish Classics”, infra.)

NOTE: The first edition of Gulliver’s Travels [i.e., Travels ... &c., by Lemuel Gulliver] was issued by Benj[amin] Motte from manuscripts delivered clandestinely to his press by Pope or Charles Ford, were laden with errors and marred by omissions arising from the printer’s nervousness. Swift’s corrections were noted down by Ford in an interleaved copy, now in the Forster Collection; these were nearly all incorporated in Motte’s 4th octavo edition of 1727. In 1735, when George Faulkner of Dublin issued the first collected works, he persuaded Swift to look over the sheets of his first four volumes, as Swift made know to Ford in a letter of 9 Oct. 1733. (See John Hayward, ed. note, Nonesuch Edn. 1934, p.[2]. The Nonesuch Edn. (1934) - which is followed in the quotations below - and later modern editions generally follow Faulkner.

A View of the Present State of Affairs in the Kingdom of Ireland: in three discourses, viz. I: A list of the absentees of Ireland, and the yearly value of their estates and incomes spent abroad [By Thomas Prior]; II: The present state of Ireland Consider’d, Wherein the List of the Absentees [...] is occasionally answer’d; III: A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen [...; &c.] 3rd edn. (London: for Weaver Bickerton 1730), [2], [6], 96; 3-32; 24pp.; 8vo.

COLLECTED WORKS

The Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D., in Four Volumes [1735], containing, I: Miscellanies in Prose; II: His Poetical Writings; III: The Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver; IV: His Papers Relating to Ireland; ‘In this edition are great alterations and additions and [...] many pieces [...] never before published’, 4 vols. (Dublin: [by and for] George Faulkner 1735), ill., engravs. by G. Vertue & P. Simms [10 pls., ports, 8o. [TCD Lib. copy TT.f.42]

The Works of J.S., D.D., D.S.P.D., in Six Volumes [6 vols.] (Dublin: George Faulkner 1742[-1744]), CONTENTS: I: The author’s Miscellanies in Prose; II: His Poetical writings; III: The Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver; IV, His Papers relating to Ireland; V: The Conduct of the Allies; VI: The Publick Spirit of the Whigs; 6 vols. ; The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D, D.S.P.D. in Eight Volumes [1746], containing, I. His Miscellanies in Prose. II. His Poetical Writings; III: The Travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver; IV: Papers Relating to Ireland, and the Drapier’s letters; V; The Conduct of the Allies, and the Examiners; VI: The Publick Spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite Conversation. VII: Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII: Directions to Servants, Sermons, Poems, &c., 8 vols. (Dublin: printed by George Faulkner 1741-1746), pls [maps, ports.], 8o.

See note to Cambridge UL copy of The Works [...] in Eight Parts (1746), as supra: ’Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs’ [in Vol. 7], and ’Directions to Servants’ [in Vol. 8] issued separately; general tp. 1746; tps. to Vols. 5 & 6 1741; Vols. 1 & 4 1742; Vol. 3 1743; Vol. 2 1744; vols. 7 & 8, 1746; Vol. 7 reiss. Letters to and from Dr. J. Swift (Dublin 1741) with cancelled initial advertisement leaf and titlepage a 1746 titlepage in their place; Vol. 8 identified by Teerink-Scouten as ‘first issue’ in the set, with M in M, DCC, LVI [1746], larger [Former owner John Cole; Elizabeth Cole; now in Cambridge UL]. Also, The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D, D.S.P.D. in eight volumes - I: His Miscellanies in Prose; II: His Poetical Writings; III: The Travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver; IV: Papers Relating to Ireland, and The Drapier’s letters; V: The Conduct of the Allies, and the Examiners; VI: The Publick Spirit of the Whiggs, &c., with Polite Conversation; VII: Letters to and from Dr. Swift; VIII: Directions to Servants, Sermons, Poems, &c ., 8 vols. (Dublin: George Faulkner 1741-1751), pls., maps, ports., 8o. [general titlepage 1751; vols. 2-6 & 8 1741-46; Vol. 7 5th edn. 1751.

John Hawkesworth, ed., The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin: Accurately revised, in twelve volumes. Adorned with copper-plates; with some account of the author’s life, and notes historical and explanatory (London: Printed for C. Bathurst, T. Osborne, W. Bowyer, J. Hinton, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Davis and C. Reymers, and J. Dodsley. MDCCLXXV [1765]; Cf. Hawkesworth, The Works of Swift (1764-79), vols. 15, 16, 17, & 18 containing the bulk of his letters, edited by Deane Swift, and including the forty letters pertaining to the ‘Journal to Stella’, still the keeping of Robt. Marshall, her executor, previous printed by Williams as appendix to an edition of his letters (Dublin, Skinner’s Row: James Williams 1767) [see References, infra]. Remarks on 1765 Edn.: A further 5 vols. of were publ. in the same year, intended to accompany the original 12 vols.; Vol. 18 publ. in 1775) [COPAC].

John Hawkesworth, The Works of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin / including the whole of the posthumous pieces, letters, &c., A New Edition, Accurately revised and arranged in the most natural and proper order, with an account of the Author's Life, and Notes historical, Critical, and Explanatory, by J. Hawksworth and others, Adorned with with copperplates (London: Printed for Charles Elliot, Edinburgh MDCCLXXIV [1784]. (Vol. XI [11] at Ebay [no vendor] accessed online - 20.01.2024].)

Thomas Sheridan, ed., The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, arranged, revised and corrected, with notes, by Thomas Sheridan, A.M., A New Edition, in Seventeen Volumes [17 vols.], Vol. V (London: Printed for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. F. & C. Rivington, L. Davis, W. Owen, J. Dodsley, T. Longman, R. Baldwin, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, T. Egerton, & W. Bent. M DCCLXXXIV [1784]. (This copy with library plate of John Scott
 
See also 2nd Edn.—

Thomas Sheridan, ed., The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift / arranged by Thomas Sheridan with notes, historical and critical [Half-title: Dean Swift's works] in nineteen volumes [19 vols.]; A new edition, corr. and rev. by John Nichols (London: Printed for J. Johnson 1801), ill., 25cm.; Ded. to Francis Rawdon Hastings by J. Nichols (p.3 of vol. 1); front. vol. 1 engraved port. of Swift by James Basire. Printed in London by Luke Hansard (vols. 1, 16), Nichols and Son (vols. 2-3, 7-8), H. Baldwin and Son (vols. 4-6, 9, 11-14, 18-19), and M. Brown (vols. 10, 15, 17). Addenda & erratum: vol. 19, p. vi, 396. CONTENTS [incomplete]: Vol. 1: Life of Doctor Swift [by Sheridan]. Vol. 2: A tale of a tub; The battle of the books [and essays]. Vol. 3: The Examiner [and political tracts]. Vol. 4: History of Queen Anne. Vol. 5: Miscellaneous pieces. Vol. 6: Gulliver's travels. Vol. 7: Poems. Vol. 8.: Poems, Polite conversation, &c. Vol. 9: Drapier's letters [&c.]. Vol. 10: Sermons. Memoirs of Captain John Creichton. Vols. 11-15: Letters. Vol. 16: Directions to servants [and miscellany]. Vol. 17: History of John Bull. Essays. Poetry. Vols. 18-19. Letters. Index.
Works of Swift, ed. Thomas Sheridan, 17 vols. (1784) - Vol. V Works of Swift, ed. Thomas Sheridan, 17 vols. (1784) - Vol. VIII
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Temple Scott, et al., eds., Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, 14 vols. (Bohn Edn. 1897-1908), and Do., with two additional vols. of Poems (1910) [intro. W. E. H. Lecky]. Vol. 1: Tale of a Tub; Battle of the Books; Critical Essay upon the Faculties of the Mind; The Bickerstaff Pamphlets, ... &c., ed. Scott. Vol. 2: Journal to Stella, ed. F. Ryland [2 ports. of Stella]. Vols. 3 & 4: Writings on Religion and The Church, ed. Scott. Vol. 7: The Drapier’s Letters, ed. Scott; Vol. 8 & 11: Literary essays, with Gulliver’s Travels, ed. G. R. Dennis; A Proposal for Correcting ... The English Language; Hints towards an Essay on Conversation; Character; Directions to Servants, and an Autobiographical Fragment, ed. Scott. Vol. 9: contribs. to Examiner, Tatler, Spectator, &c. Vol. 10: Historical writings incl. Four Last Years; Abstract of English History; Remarks on Burnet, ed. Temple Scott. Vol. 12: essays on the Portraits, &c.; W. Spencer Jackson, ‘Bibliography of Swift’, & Index. Vols. 13 & 14, Poems, ed. W. Ern[e]st Browning; 12 ports. of Swift and others of Stella & Vanessa].

Stanley Lane-Poole, ed., with commentary and notes, Letters and Journals of Jonathan Swift , sel. & ed., with commentary & notes [The Parchment Library] (London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co. 1885), xv, 292 pp.; 1 lf. [17cm] - contains I: Early letters, 1691-1710.-II: The Journal to Stella, 1710-1713.-III: Stella and Vanessa, 1714-1728. IV; Letters to friends in England. V: Letters to friends in Ireland.;

David Woolley, ed., The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, D.D., 4 vols. (NY: P. Lang), Vol. I: Letters 1690-1714 - Nos. 1-300 (1999); Vol. 2: Letters 1714-1726 - Nos. 301-700 (2001); Vol. 3: Letters 1726-1734 - Nos. 701-1,100 [q.d.]; Vol. 4: Letters 1734-1745 - Nos. 1,101-1,508 [q.d.]. (For critique, see Commentary, infra.)

William Alfred Eddy, ed. & intro., Satires and personal writings by Jonathan Swift [Oxford standard authors] (OUP 1932), xxii, 499pp. [front. port.; 19cm]; CONTENTS: Introduction. Ironical essays: An argument against abolishing Christianity; A modest proposal for preventing the children of Ireland from being a burden to their parents or country; A letter of advice to a young poet; A letter to a young lady on her marriage; An essay on modern education; A true and faithful narrative of what passed in London; The memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus; Satirical diversions: Memoirs of the life of Scriblerus; A meditation upon a broom-stick; The Partridge-Bickerstaff papers; Predictions for the year 1708 ... / by Isaac Bickerstaff; The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions, being an account of the death of Mr. Partridge; Squire Bickerstaff detected; An account of the proceedings of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.; A vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.; A compeat collection of genteel and ingenious conversation; Directions to servants in general; Miscellanious essays: On corruptions of style; A vindication of Mr. Gay, and the Beggar's opera; A letter to a young gentleman, lately entered into Holy Orders; A letter to the whole people of Ireland / by M.B. Drapier; Intimate and personal writings: The journal to Stella; Prayers for Stella; On the death of Mrs. Johnson; Thoughts; Resolutions when I come to be old; On various subjects; On religion; Letters: To Thomas Swift, December 6, 1693; To John Gay, June 12, 1714; To John Arbuthnot, June 16, 1714; To John Arbuthnot, July 3, 1714; To Alexander Pope, September 29, 1725; To Stella, March 11, 1726-7; To L'Abbé des Fontaines, July, 1727; To Benjamin Motte, December 28, 1727; To John Gay, February 26, 1727-8; To Alexander Pope, July 16, 1728; To Viscount Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729-30; To John Arbuthnot, November 1734; To Alexander Pope, February 7, 1735-6; To Mrs. Whiteway, October 3, 1738; To ..., January 9, 1739-40; To Mrs. Whiteway, April 29, 1740; Poems: Verses wrote on a laldy's ivory table-book; A description of the morning; A description of a city shower; Phyllis; or, The progress of love; To a lady (who desired the author to write some verses upon her in the heroic style); A satirical elegy on the death of a late famous general; Verses on the revival of the Order of the Bath; On the vowels; Verses made for fruit-women; To Dr. Delany on the libels written against him; Stella's birth-day, 1718-19; Stella's birth-day, 1726-7; The day of judgment; On the death of Dr. Swift. bibliographical references and index.

Herbert Davis, et al., eds., The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, 16 vols. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1939-68) [Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Blackwell; uniform vols. of 20cm. height.] Note: Herbert Davis obiit. 1967. CONTENTS - Vol. I: A Tale of a Tub and other Early Works 1696-1707, ed. Herbert Davis (1939, reiss. 1965), xxxvi, 311pp.; Vol. II: Bickerstaff Papers and Pamphlets on the Church, ed. Herbert Davis (1940, 1966), xl, 299pp.; Vol. III: The Examiner and Other Pieces Written in 1710-11, ed. Herbert Davis (1941), xxxv, 292pp.; Vol. IV: A Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue, Polite Conversation, &c., ed. Herbert Davis (1953, reiss. 1957, 1973), xl, 309pp.; Vol. V: Miscellaneous and Autobiographical Pieces, Fragments, and Marginalia, ed. Herbert Davis (1962, reiss. 1969), xl, 375pp.; Vol. VI: 6 Political Tracts 1711-13, ed. Herbert Davis (1951, 1964, 1973), xxviii, 220pp.; Vol. VII: The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, ed. Herbert Davis & Harold Williams (1951), xxxvi, 252pp.; Vol. VIII: 8 Political Tracts 1713-1719, ed. Herbert Davis and Irvin Ehrenpreis (1953), xl, 243pp.; Vol. IX: 9 Irish Tracts 1720-1723. Letters to Clergyman and Poet. Sermons, ed. Herbert Davis, with an introduction to the sermons by Louis A. Landa (1948; reiss. 1968), xxx, 386pp.; Vol. X: The Drapier’s Letters and other Works 1724-1725, ed. Herbert Davis (1941, reiss. 1966), xxxi, 222pp.; Vol. XI: Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Herbert Davis, with an intro. by Harold Williams (1941), xliv, 316pp.; Do. [rev. edn.] (1959, reiss. 1965), xxviii, 332pp.; Vol. XII: Irish Tracts 1728-1733, ed. Herbert Davis (1955, reiss. 1971), xlvii, 358pp.; Vol. XIII: Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces 1733-1742, ed. Herbert Davis (1959, reiss. 1964, 1973), xliv, 233pp.; Vol. XIV: Index to the Prose Writings, compiled by William J. Kunz, Steven Hollander and Susan Staves; under the supervision of Irvin Ehrenpreis (1968), xv, 384pp.; Vols. XV & XVI: Journal to Stella [being a rep. of the edition by Herbert Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1948)]. See this listing in table format below:

Herbert Davis, et al., eds., The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, 16 vols. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1939-68) [Printed by the Shakespeare Head Press and published for the Press by Blackwell; uniform vols. of 20cm. height.]
Vol. I A Tale of a Tub and other Early Works 1696-1707, ed. Herbert Davis (1939, reiss. 1965), xxxvi, 311pp.
Vol. II Bickerstaff Papers and Pamphlets on the Church, ed. Herbert Davis (1940, 1966), xl, 299pp.
Vol. III The Examiner and Other Pieces Written in 1710-11, ed. Herbert Davis (1941), xxxv, 292pp.
Vol. IV A Proposal for Correcting the English Tongue, Polite Conversation, &c., ed. Herbert Davis (1953, reiss. 1957, 1973), xl, 309pp.
Vol. V Miscellaneous and Autobiographical Pieces, Fragments, and Marginalia, ed. Herbert Davis (1962, reiss. 1969), xl, 375pp.
Vol. VI 6 Political Tracts 1711-13, ed. Herbert Davis (1951, 1964, 1973), xxviii, 220pp.
Vol. VII The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen, ed. Herbert Davis & Harold Williams (1951), xxxvi, 252pp.
Vol. VIII 8 Political Tracts 1713-1719, ed. Herbert Davis and Irvin Ehrenpreis (1953), xl, 243pp.
Vol. IX 9 Irish Tracts 1720-1723. Letters to Clergyman and Poet. Sermons, ed. Herbert Davis, with an introduction to the sermons by Louis A. Landa (1948; reiss. 1968), xxx, 386pp.
Vol. X The Drapier’s Letters and other Works 1724-1725, ed. Herbert Davis (1941, reiss. 1966), xxxi, 222pp.
Vol. XI Gulliver’s Travels, ed. Herbert Davis, with an intro. by Harold Williams (1941), xliv, 316pp.; Do. [rev. edn.] (1959, reiss. 1965), xxviii, 332pp.
Vol. XII Irish Tracts 1728-1733, ed. Herbert Davis (1955, reiss. 1971), xlvii, 358pp.
Vol. XIII Directions to Servants and Miscellaneous Pieces 1733-1742, ed. Herbert Davis (1959, reiss. 1964, 1973), xliv, 233pp.
Vol. XIV Index to the Prose Writings, compiled by William J. Kunz, Steven Hollander and Susan Staves; under the supervision of Irvin Ehrenpreis (1968), xv, 384pp.
Vols. XV & XVI

Journal to Stella [being a rep. of the edition by Herbert Williams (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1948)].
 

Herbert Davis, ed. & annot., The Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland against receiving Wood’s Halfpence [... &c.] (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1935), xcv, 400pp., 8o. [Note: Herbert Davis obiit. 1967.]

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A Tale of a Tub: Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. To which is added an Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern BOOKs in St. James’s Library ..., by Jonathan Swift; published in 1704, printed for John Nutt - Available at Internet Archive

A Tale of a Tub to Which is Added The Battle of the Books, and the Mechanical Operation of the spirit, by Jonathan Swift; published in 1920, Clarendon Press (Oxford); Contributions: Guthkelch, Adolph Charles Louis, d. 1916, Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962. Statement: By Jonathan Swift. Together with The history of Martin, Wotton’s Observations upon the Tale of a Tub, Curll’s Complete key, &c. The whole edn. with an introduction, and notes historical and explanatory, by A. C. Guthkelch and D. Nichol Smith. Pagination: lxxv, 370pp. - Available at Internet Archive

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Herman Teerink & Scouten, A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose and Verse of Jonathan Swift DD (Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1937), 434pp.,; Do. A. H. Scouten, ed. [2d rev. edn. incorp. revs. & corrs. by Teerink] (Philadelphia: Pennsylvania UP 1963; rep. 2002), 453pp., ill. [front. t.p. facing Dr Lemuel Gulliver.). CONTENTS: Publisher’s note [v]; Table of Symbols [ix]; Table of Location of Teerink Numbers [xi]; Sections: I. Collected Works [3]; 2. Smaller Collections [129]; III. Tale of a Tub, etc. [163]; IV. Gulliver’s Travels [192]; V. Separate Works [253]; VI. Doubtful [389]; VII. Biography and Criticism, 1709-1895 [405]; Index of Titles [432-53]. (p.xvii.) List of Charts: Faulkner Editions (8vo) [47]; Faulkner Editions (12mo) [60]; Miscellanies [77]; Hawkesworth Editions [104];
Scotch and Irish Editions [119] (p.xviii.)

Teerink & Scouten, Bibliography of the Writings [...] of Jonathan Swift (The Hague 1937; rev. Philadelphia 1963)
Publisher’s note

After it was decided to publish Dr. Teerink’s revision of his Swift bibliography, two major problems had to be resolved. First, the physical state of the manuscript: Dr. Teerink’s additions had expanded it to where it could no longer be included in a single volume, and much of this new material was in longhand and required editing. Second, the completion of Dr. Teerink’s work: he had not finished making certain projected changes, particularly his intended task of renumbering all the entries. Moreover, Dr. Teerink was ill at the time, and, since the University of Pennsylvania Library had acquired his Swift collection, he no longer had the books at hand with which to verify his material. At this point, A. H. Scouten, professor of English in the College, was requested to prepare the bibliography for the press.
 Professor Scouten’s first step was to seek advice from eighteenthcentury scholars and bibliographers regarding Dr. Teerink’s plan for renumbering the entries. Without exception, everyone he consulted advised him against discarding the old numbers, in view of the way the present Teerink numbering is embedded in books and articles on Swift and in dealers’ catalogues. Dr. Teerink’s reason for wishing to change the numbers requires an explanation of his policy in compiling this new edition.
  The original printing, in 1937, was greeted with rather sharp criticism by the reviewers, who did not impugn the accuracy of the contents but complained of the absence of full bibliographical descriptions, disputed the attribution to Swift of several works which did not belong in the canon, and questioned the organization of the material. Furthermore, although the book was divided into overlapping categories, e.g., “Collected Works,” “A Tale of a Tub,” “Gulliver’s Travels,” and “Separate Works,” some critics argued that the writings of a major author should be listed in chronological order. Finally, there were objections to Dr. Teerink’s inclusion under “Collected Works” of any book or pamphlet which happened to contain more than a single piece by Swift.
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 Our resolution of this problem has been to retain the original numbers but to list in a table at the beginning the pages on which all Teerink numbers are located.
[...; p.v.]
A statement needs to be made concerning the nature and extent of the editorial work done by Professor Scouten. He has verified all of the physical descriptions of the books and pamphlets that were contained in the Teerink Collection, now in the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, and has made minor reforms in using bibliographical symbols where Dr. Teerink gave a lengthier verbal account. In order to hold the work to one volume, he has arbitrarily cut off all entries after Sir Walter Scott’s edition of 1814 (except under “Biography and Criticism,” where the entries extended to 1895). He has completed the replacement of contemporary criticism begun by Dr. Teerink. He has assigned numbers to new entries established by Dr. Teerink, has provided a table showing the location of all entries, and has made an index. He has silently omitted entries of some works not belonging in the Swift canon, particularly the John Bull pamphlets. In only one place has he revised any entries; in the light of new information, he has rearranged those for “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift.” ([...] p.vi.)

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Prose Poetry

Poetry

Individual titles (sel.)
  • “Pindaric Ode to King William.
  • “To Dr. William Sancroft” (1692).
  • “Ode to the Athenian Society” (in The Athenian Gazette, 1692); “To Sir William Temple” (1692).
  • “A Description of Mother Ludwell’s Cave” (1692-93).
  • “Verses Occasioned by Sir William Temple’s Late Illness and Recovery” (1692-93).
  • “To Congreve” (1693).
  • “Baucis and Philemon. Imitated, From the Eighth Book of Ovid” (1706-69).
  • “A Description of the Morning”, in The Tatler (30 April 1709).
  • “A Description of a City Shower”, in The Tatler (October 1710).
  • “Mrs. Frances Harris’s Petition” (1709).
  • “Cadenus and Vanessa” (1713; 1726).
  • “Phillis, or, the Progress of Love” (1719).
  • “On Stella’s Birth-day, 1719” (1719).
  • “The Progress of Poetry” [1720].
  • “Stella’s Birth-day 1721”.
  • “A Satirical Elegy On the Death of a late Famous General” [Duke of Marlborough] (1722).
  • “The Furniture of a Woman’s Mind” (1727).
  • “Stella’s Brith-day, 1727” (1727).
  • “A Pastoral Dialogue” (1729).
  • “Upon the Horrid Plot Discovered by Harlequin, the Bishop of Rochester’s French Dog” [1727].
  • “The Lady’s Dresing Room” (1730, pub 1732).
  • “A Beautiful Young Nymph Going to Bed” (1731).
  • “Strephon and Chloe” [1731].
  • “Cassinus and Peter: A Tragical Elegy” [1731].
  • “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D.: Occasioned by Reading a Maxim in Rochefoucault” [1731].
  • “The Beasts’ Confession to the Priest” (1732-33).
  • “The Day of Judgment” (1732-33).
  • “On Poetry: A Rhapsody” (1733).
  • “Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, DSPD” (1731, publ. 1739).
Collected & Selected edns.  
  • William E. Browning, ed., The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., 2 vols. (London 1910).
  • Harold Williams, ed., The Poems of Jonathan Swift, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1937), and Do. [rev. edn.] (Oxford 1958) [also cited as Vols I-V of Works].
  • Herbert Davis, ed., Poetical Works (London: Oxford UP 1967), xxx, 682pp.
  • Pat Rogers, ed., The Complete Poems (Yale UP; Penguin Edn. 1983), 956pp., 1 map [Bibl. pp.33-35], and Do. (London: OUP 1985).
  • Pat Rogers, ed. & intro., Selected Poems (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993), xv, 222pp.
  • Derek Mahon, ed., Selected Poems (Belfast: Blackstaff 1990), 91pp.
  • A. Norman Jeffares, ed. & intro., Fair Liberty: The Selected Poems (London: Kylie Cathie 1992), 257pp.
  • Pat Rogers, sel. & intro., Selected Poems [Penguin Classics] (Harmondsworth: Penguin 1993), xv, 222pp.
  • Derek Mahon, ed. & intro., Jonathan Swift: Selected Poems (London: Faber 2001) [q.pp.]

Bickerstaff Papers (1708, 1709): “Predictions for the Year 1708 / Wherein the Month, and Day of the Month, are set down, the Persons named, and the great Actions and Events of next Year particularly related as they will come to pass; Written to prevent the People of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar Almanack-Makers by Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq” (1707-08); “The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions / Being an Account of the Death of Mr. Partridge, the Almanack-maker, upon the 29th Inst. in a Letter to a Person of Honour” and “An Account of the Death of Mr. Partridge”, “A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.: Against What is Objected to Him by Mr. Partridge, in his ‘Almanack for the present Year 1709’. By the said Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq.” (1709).

Swift at Marsh’s Library (Dublin) holds 1] A Letter to the Shop-keepers, Tradesmen, Farmers, and Common-people of Ireland; Vol. IV of the author’s works in the XIX Vol. set (Dublin: by and for George Faulkner 1725), 8o. [copy donated to Marsh’s Library by Prof. J. G. Simms]. 2] Gulliver, Lemuel, containing travels into several remote nations of the world; [being] Vol. III of the author’s works in a set of XIX (Dublin: by and for George Faulkner 1735), 8o, incl. engraved port. of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver, intaglio and plinth, subscribed ‘Splendide Mendax Flor.’ [copy in Marsh’s Library.] Query: Letter to Shop-keepers [Drapier's Letters] first issued in 1725 - and so listed in Australian Nat. Lib. Cat.; rep. by Faulkner in Coll. Works (1735).

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