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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 (supposed author.)
Other Authors: Sheridan, Thomas, 1687-1738
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : [publisher not identified], Printed in the year M.DCC.XXII. [that is, 1721?]
Edition:The fourth edition.
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Description
Item Description:Each section, with the exception of the Imitation of Horace, has special title page, with dates from 1718 to 1720.
"The art of punning" (p. i-xxvii, 1-32)--has been attributed to Thomas Sheridan or to Sheridan and Swift. Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.; Teerink.
Swift's authorship of parts of the remainder of the text is considered doubtful by Teerink. Cf. H. Teerink. A bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift. Philadelphia, 1963. page 131.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is bound with: The benefit of farting explain'd. Long-fart, 1722, and The wonderful wonder of wonders. London, 1722, each with a separate title page and pagination. According to Teerink-Scouten these two pieces do not belong to this volume. These are cataloged separately.
Advertisements on page [6] (first count).
Head- and end-pieces; initials.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
Physical Description:6 unnumbered pages, xxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 204 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait (frontispiece) ; 17 cm
Place of Publication:England -- London.