The Works of Dr Jonathan Swift, Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper Plates. By John Hawkesworth. London: for C. Bathurst et al., 1765. [Together with] The Five Last Volmes of the Works of Dr. Swift: Being Vol XIII-XVII, With an Index to the whole Seventeen, 1765. [Together with] Letters Written by Jonathan Swift. John Hawkesworth Edition, 1767. [Together with] A Supplement to Dr. Swift's Works: Containing Miscellanies in Prose and Verse, in Three Volumes. London: for J. Nichols, 1779.
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A fantastic amalgam of several sets, though with many condition defects as pictured, which were published separately but here are uniformly bound and brought together to create a very comprehensive set of Jonathan Swift's works, letters, and his Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Published over a large time span, between 1765 and 1779.
Extended sets such as this are very scarce. This comprises The Works (18 volumes), The Letters (5 volumes, of 6), and the Supplement (3 volumes).
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Size: 87 x 139 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
Uniform full calf leather bindings, many with substantial loss to the backstrips, volume eight lacking almost the entire backstrip, loss of tooled labels, etc. Shelf wear and wear to extremities. Many joints cracked, most boards fragile. Generally clean through the text blocks however, a few leaves loose in some of the volumes. Top page edges uniformly dulled as typical.
