The Works. Arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M. With Notes, Historical and Critical. A New Edition, Corrected and Revised by John Nichols.

SWIFT, Jonathan.

Edité par London: J. Johnson, John Nichols and Son [& 23 others in London], 1803

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A tastefully bound set of the Nichols edition. The editor and publisher, John Nichols (1745-1826), spent a lifetime meticulously adding new material to Swift's collected works. It remains "indispensable" to scholars (Maner, p. 495). Nichols's edition of the Works was issued as 19 octavo volumes in 1801. He revised it once more in 1808, but in 1814 Sir Walter Scott "eclipsed" Nichols with his "plagiarized version", which soon became the standard edition for the rest of the century (Maner, p. 481). Martin W. Maner, "An Eighteenth-Century Editor at Work: John Nichols and Jonathan Swift", The Paper of the Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 70, No. 4, Fourth Quarter, 1976. 24 vols, duodecimo (154 x 95 mm). Portrait frontispiece to vol. I, folding plate to vol. II, map of Laputa to vol. IX, several pages of musical notation to vol. XI. Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco, spines lettered in gilt with raised bands, compartments tooled in gilt, roll of ivy leaves enclosed by a single gilt fillet to boards with cornerpieces in blind, gilt roll to turn-ins, light brown moiré silk endpapers with edges tooled with blind greek key roll and cornerpieces, edges gilt, yellow bookmarkers. Gilt on spines faded, extremities lightly worn, inner hinge of vol. XXII cracked but firm, occasional foxing. An attractive set in a contemporary binding.

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• Titre: The Works. Arranged by Thomas Sheridan, A.M. With Notes, Historical and Critical. A New Edition, Corrected and Revised by John Nichols.
• Éditeur: London: J. Johnson, John Nichols and Son [& 23 others in London], 1803
• Édition: Edition originale