First edition of the Miscellanies. Contains no pages 49-50, although the text is continuous.
SWIFT, ARBUTHNOT, POPE, and GAY.—Miscellanies. . . . By Dr. Swift, Dr. Arbuthnot, Mr. Pope, and Mr. Gay. The Fourth Edition Corrected: With Several Additional Pieces in Verse and Prose. . . . London: Printed for Charles Bathurst, . . . MDCCXLII. 8vo, four volumes, half red levant morocco, gilt back, gilt top, uncut edges, by R. W. Smith.
Large paper copy, with nine portraits, etc., inserted.
Volume I is by Swift; II, by Swift, Arbuthnot, and Gay; III, by Arbuthnot, Pope, and Gay; and IV, by the four authors.
SWIFT, Jonathan.—(I.) An Epistle to a Lady, Who deſired the Author to make Verses on Her, in the heroick stile. Also a Poem, Occaſion'd by Reading Dr. Young's Satires, called, The Universal Passion. Dublin, Printed: And Reprinted at London for J. Wilford, at the Three Flower-de-Luces behind the Chapter-Houſe, St. Paul's Church-Yard. M dcc. xxx iv. [Price 1s. (II.) On Poetry: a rapsody. Printed at Dublin, and Re-printed at London: And ſold by J. Huggonson, next to Kent's Coffee-House, near Serjeant's-Inn, in Chancery-Lane; and at the Bookſellers and Pamphlet-ſhops, 1733. [Price One Shilling.] Folio, two works in one volume, green levant morocco, by The Club Bindery.
First editions.
Collation: I. Title, one leaf (verso blank). Epistle, B1-E2 recto, in twos. Poem, E2 verso-E3. Pages 1-18.
II. Title with ornament, one leaf (verso blank). Text, B1-H1, ending with Errata, in twos. Pages 1-28.
SWIFT, Jonathan.—The Beasts Confession to the Priest, on Obſerving how moſt Men miſtake their own Talents. By J. S. D. S. P. Dublin, Printed: London, Re-Printed: And Sold by T. Cooper, . . . 1738. 4to, blue morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
A-C in fours, half-title on A1, and C4 blank.