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Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, thin card cover, staples little rusted, bottom corner tip one page creased, minor edgewear corner tips some pages. 40 pp. The Jonathan Swift (English satirist and poet) book collection was acquired in 1961 from a distinguished Australian musician, Mr David Woolley. Mr Woolley, a book collector, was for many years first oboe in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He left in 1967 to follow his career in England. The collection at this time consists of 700 volumes, the majority printed before 1800, of which about a half are editions of works by Swift, and the rest books relating to or indirectly to him, to people closely connected with him, or more generally to his milieu.…