Swift, Jonathan

The Works of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift; Thomas Sheridan · 1784 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.24 | $1,710.77 | ¥273,189)

London, W. Strahan, B. Collins, J. F. and C. Rivington, et al. 1784. Leather. A fantastic seventeen volume set featuring the works of the Irish essayist and satirist Jonathan Swift, bound in full calf. A new edition complete in 17 volumes. Illustrated with a monochrome fronti...

Gulliver&Apos;S Travels Into Lilliput and Brobdingnag

Jonathan Swift · 1920 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.95 | ¥29,534)

William Heinemann, London, 1920. First edition. Leather. The first edition of Jean De Bosschere's charmingly illustrated edition of 'Gulliver's Travels', in a half morocco binding by Zaehnsdorf. The first Jean De Bosschere illustrated edition of this work.I...

Voyages de Gulliver Dans Des Contrees Lointaines

Jonathan Swift · 1841 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

Paris , Garnier Freres; H. Fournier Aine, 1841. Cloth. A charming illustrated French edition of Gulliver's Travels, preceded by a biographical and literary note by Walter Scott. A new French edition by Garnier Freres.In the publisher's very scarce decorative cloth bi...

Works from the Language Library

Eric Partridge; Vigilans; Jonathan Swift · 1952 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.08 | ¥15,822)

London, Andre Deutsch, 1952-1963. First edition. Cloth. Three smart volumes from The Language Library, edited by Eric Partridge. Three volumes. Edited by Eric Partridge, a New Zealand-British lexicographer of English slang. This set includes: Chamber of Horrors, 1952. First ed...

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts.

Lemuel Gulliver [Jonathan Swift] · 1747 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.96 | $1,981.59 | ¥316,435)

London, Charles Bathurst, 1747 . Leather. E. M. Forster's personal copy of the very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels&apos. The very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's fantastical novel about the adventures of Lemuel Gu...

The Conduct of the Allies, and of the Late Ministry in Beginning and Carrying on the Present War

[Jonathan Swift] · 1711 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, John Morphew, 1711. Leather. The fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's important anti-war and anti-Whig pamphlet, smartly bound here in a quarter calf binding. The fifth edition of this work, published in the same year as the first edition.ESTC citation number T31149....

Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues

Jonathan Swift · 1927 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.26 | ¥12,657)

London, Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, 1927. Cloth. A scarce reprint of Swift's treatise, a satirical commentary on upper class conversation. This work was originally published under the title 'A Complete Collection of Genteel and ingenious Conversation, according t...

3 Vols in 2 Voyages Du Capitaine Lemuel Gulliver, En Divers Pays Eloignez

Jonathan Swift · 1730 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,018.85 | $1,122.90 | ¥179,313)

[A La Haye] The Hague , Gerard Vander Poel, 1730 . Leather. A scarce Hague edition of Gulliver's Travels, illustrated with maps and engravings and accompanied by its interesting contemporary continuation and observations. Three volumes bound in two, in later quarter calf ...

2vols in 1 Voyages de Gulliver

Jonathan Swift; Pierre-Francois Guyot Desfontaines [Trans.] · 1727 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.50 | $488.79 | ¥78,054)

Paris, Gabriel Martin, 1727. Leather. The scarce corrected second edition of Desfontaines' influential French translation of Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," published within a year of Swift's English original. Two volumes bound in one, in a contemporary full ...

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Lemuel Gulliver [Jonathan Swift] · 1767 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, Charles Bathurst, 1767 . Leather. A lovely illustrated edition of Jonathan Swift's satirical novel 'Gulliver's Travels', following ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver on his adventures to remote lands. A mid-18th century edition of Jonathan Swift&ap...

The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, with a Life

Jonathan Swift; Rev. John Mitford · 1854 · Rooke Books

£169.00 (€202.57 | $223.26 | ¥35,652)

Boston; New York; Philadelphia, Little, Brown and Company; Evans and Dickerson; Lippincott, Grambo and Co. 1854. Leather. A smart half-calf collection of the poetry of Jonathan Swift, featuring an extensive biography by the Rev. John Mitford.  Complete in three volumes.Smartl...

Tale of a Tub, Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind

William Wotton; Jonathan Swift · 0 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, C. Cooke, c1810. Leather. The Cooke's edition of this satirical work from Jonathan Swift with critical essays by William Wotton. Cooke's edition. Illustrated with three plates. Collated complete. A critical exploration of the first major work written by Jonat...

The Drapier&Apos;S Letters to the People of Ireland Against Receiving Wood&Apos;S Halfpence

Jonathan Swift; Herbert Davis [editor] · 1935 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1935. Cloth. A smart copy of this illustrated collection of satirical letters from Anglo-Irish writer Jonathan Swift. Illustrated with a frontispiece, five full-page images, and five plates. Collated complete. A collection of satirical le...

The Select Works of Jonathan Smith

Jonathan Swift · 1826 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.67 | $317.05 | ¥50,630)

London, Printed for Hector McLean, 1826 . Leather. A lovely full leather bound set of works by Jonathan Swift with illustrations. Lovely edition of The Select Works of Jonathan Smith in full straight grain red morocco bindings. Complete in five volumes. With engravings to ea...

The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen

Jonathan Swift · 1758 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, A. Millar, 1758. First edition. Leather. The first edition, second issue of Jonathan Swift's posthumously published - and controversial - history of the final years of the reign of Queen Anne. With leaves Z3 and 2A3 correctly signed, identifying this as the first ...

Miscellanies Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

[Jonathan Swift]; [Alexander Pope] · 1736 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.10 | $1,849.49 | ¥295,340)

London, Benjamin Motte; T. Woodward, 1736-38. Leather. A leather bound copy of this literary collaboration between the prominent authors Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, the works notable for their satirical humour. In six volumes. Containing Volumes I-VI. Volumes I-IV were ...

Voyages de Gulliver Dans Des Contrees Lointaines

Jonathan Swift · 1838 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Paris , H. Fournier Aine, Editeur, 1838. First edition. Leather. A calf-bound first Grandville illustrated edition of this famous classic from Jonathan Swift, complete in two volumes as one. The first Grandville illustrated edition of Voyages de Gulliver dans des Contrees Loin...

The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift; [Eds. by Herbert Davies; Irvin Ehrenpreis; Louis Landa; Harold Williams] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.24 | $1,710.77 | ¥273,189)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1965-1973. Cloth. A fourteen volume set of prose writings from the Anglo-Irish literary giant Johnathan Swift, including his satirical Gulliver's Travels and Drapier's Letters. The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, the Anglo-Irish literary gi...

Poetical Works of Cowper, Dryden, Shelley, Swift and Thomson

William Cowper; John Dryden; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Jonathan Swift; James Thomson · 1962 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Oxford University Press, 1962-1971. Cloth. A charming set of poetical works from five literary giants, as part of the Oxford Standard Authors series. A charming set of poetical works from the great classical poets William Cowper, John Dryden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Jona...

Gulliver&Apos;S Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift · 0 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Scott, Webster, and Geary, c1839. Leather. A handsome pocket book edition of this classic novel from Jonathan Swift, bound in full morocco. This pocket book edition from Scott, Webster, and Geary is very scarce. In full blind-stamped morocco binding, with gilt to the ...