The Correspondence Of Jonathan Swift DD In Five Volumes : Volume I Letters 1690 - 1714, Volume II Letters 1714 - 1726, Volume III Letters 1726 - 1734, Volume IV Letters 1734 - 1745, Volume V Index [ 5 volumes complete ]

Swift, Jonathan & Woolley, David

ISBN 10: 0820435481 / ISBN 13: 9780820435480

Edité par Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1999 - 2014, 1999

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Cloth, dj, F/F. 5 volumes, 650pp, xxii+661pp, xxii+760pp, xxiv+674pp, [vi]+307pp, grand total of 64pp b/w plates, frontis to vol 3, vols 2 & 4 with decorated endpapers, a fine set, New. A monumental work, with 1508 letters transcribed. The volumes contain letters to some 230 contemporaries as well as their letters to Swift. 6450 grams.

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• Titre: The Correspondence Of Jonathan Swift DD In Five Volumes : Volume I Letters 1690 - 1714, Volume II Letters 1714 - 1726, Volume III Letters 1726 - 1734, Volume IV Letters 1734 - 1745, Volume V Index [ 5 volumes complete ]
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1999 - 2014
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0820435481
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780820435480
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: 1st edition.
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography
  • Jonathan Swift

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Synopsis

The collected letters of Jonathan Swift D.D., Irish dean and celebrated author of Gulliver's Travels, have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. In the half century from 1690 to 1740 some two hundred and thirty contemporaries, in all walks of life, thought to preserve his autograph: among the were his literary friends, his printers and publishers, politicians of the day in England and Ireland, his ecclesiastical superiors and other clergy, his friends of the nobility, and closer friends and relatives. He also diligently kept many of their replies. Together these project a marvellously animated panorama not only of his own, life, but of his varied acquaintance, and the scenes of London, Dublin, and rural Ireland through a deeply interesting historical era. This entirely new edition new edition prepared by a recognized authority presents over 1500 letters, derived from the earliest authentic texts in manuscript or print, and provides the most comprehensive commentary to date, based upon published and unpublished research of the last thirty years.