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Lot 485

SWIFT, Jonathan (1667?1745). The Works? Edinburgh: Printed ...

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SWIFT, Jonathan (1667?1745). The Works? Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable, [et al], 1824. 19 volumes, 8vo. Half?titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of Swift in Vol. I (offsetting to title). Contemporary full polished calf framed in gilt, raised bands with gilt fillets, compartments tooled in gilt, red and black morocco spine labels gilt, all edges yellow, gilt turn ins, marbled endpapers, gilt stamp signed by Zaehnsdorf (spines a bit darkened). Second edition of this exceptionally clean set with notes by Sir Walter Scott. From the private library of a prominent Chicago collector, part II.