Jonathan SWIFT. - Lot 210

Jonathan SWIFT. The Tale of the Barrel, containing all that is most sublime and mysterious in the arts and sciences. Avec plusieurs autres Pièces très-curieuses. A La Haye, chez Scheurleer, 1757, 3 volumes in-12 bound in full contemporary marbled calf, ornate smooth spines, title-pieces, one cap worn. Frontispiece and 7 attractive unsigned figures, including the famous Battle of the Books (T. II, p. 57). Volume III is entitled "Traité des Dissentions entre les nobles et le peuple, dans les Républiques d'Athènes et de Rome, etc., l'Art de ramper en poésie, et l'Art du mensonge en politique. To serve as a sequel to the Tale of the Barrel". Ex-libris of Dr. Marquez pasted to upper margin of frontispiece. A fine copy.