Book Description

Fronts & plates in vols III (Gulliver) & XX (Tale of a Tub); a couple of pages with sl. marginal worm damage not affecting text, sl. damp marking to end of vols I & XVI, otherwise internally v.g. Armorial bookplate of John Haitigan McKnight on leading pastedowns.
Dealer Notes
Teerink 48 with the note 'all these twenty volumes are earlier ones, provided with new titles'.
Author SWIFT, Jonathan.
Date 1772
Binding Uniformly bound in full contemp. calf, gilt bands, red & green morocco labels; sl. surface marking to vol. XIII, some expert repairs to head of spines, boards a little marked.
Publisher Dublin: George Faulkner.
Condition Overall a very handsome set in an attractive contemp. binding.

Price: £1500.00

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