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Contemporary mottled boards with five raised bands. Gilt title, volume numbers, and stamps on slightly rubbed spine. Red, slightly faded edges; contemporary marbled endpapers. Modern pencil marks on FFE and RFE. Pages clean. Corners, edges, and hinges a little worn but solid.According to Teerink's bibliographies of Swift, Thomas Johnson was the publisher of this volume, and this work was printed in The Hague, where Johnson also did business, despite the title page's claim of London. Swift scholars have speculated with a certain degree of uncertainty as to the authorship of everything in this volume; some of the works and/or explanations seem inconsistent with Swift's other writings. Johnson may have "contrived...to enhance the appeal of his own book" by "exploiting both the notoriety and the incompletions of the Tale" (Walsh, "Introduction" in A Tale of a Tub and Other Works, Cambridge University Press). Thus, this volume is of intriguing and interesting bibliographic and research value. More photos… Read More