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• Author/Creator:Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, author.
  
• Uniform Title:[Works. Selections. 1925]
  
• Title:Selected essays / by the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; decorated with engravings on wood by Jon Farleigh ; edited by R. Ellis Roberts ; volume one.
  
• Publication:Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXV [1925]
  
• Physical Description:[4], 9-80, [2] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: PR3722 .R63 1925+ Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes: PM Coll. Whitehaven. 1995.
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 274. Bound in quarter parchment with green paper covered boards.
  
• Notes:"Here ends Volume I. of Essays by Jonathan Swift. Edited by R. Ellis Roberts, & illustrated with wood engravings by Jon Farleigh. Printed and published at The Golden Cockerel Press, Waltham St. Lawrence, Berkshire, under the direction of Robert Gibbings; and completed on the 14th day of July, 1925. Compositors: A.H. Gibbs and F. Young. Pressmen: A.C. Cooper and W.R. Mills. This edition is limited to 450 copies."--Colophon.
  "It was originally intended to issue these essays in two volumes, but owing to an accident in which more than half the edition of the first volume was destroyed, it was decided not to proceed with Volume II. The 190 surviving copies, being complete in themselves, were therefore issued to subscribers according to priority of application."--Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press.
  
• Format:Book
• References:Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 27
  
• Subjects:English essays.
  Satire, English.
  Private press books--England--Waltham Saint Lawrence--Specimens.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1925.
  Waltham Saint Lawrence--Imprints--Specimens--1925.
  
• Genre/Form:Wood engravings--1925.
  Private press books (Publishing)--England--Waltham Saint Lawrence.
  Essays.
  Satire.
  
• Also listed under:Farleigh, John, 1900-1965, engraver.
  Gibbings, Robert, 1889-1958, printer.
  Roberts, R. Ellis (Richard Ellis), 1879-1953, editor.
  Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.