SWIFT, Jonathan.
The Works … accurately revised in twelve Volumes, adorned with Copper-Plates; with some Account of the Author’s life, and Notes historical and exaplanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
London, Printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Lawes, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer. 1755. [Vols. II-IX: 1754].
Twelve vols., 8vo., with 26 engraved plates, and four plates of engraved music; some variations to the publishers named in each imprint (see Teerink-Scouten for details); title-pages printed in red and black; occasional marginal dampstains (particularly to volume VI), but a very good set in contemporary calf, slightly rubbed.
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The Works … accurately revised in twelve Volumes, adorned with Copper-Plates; with some Account of the Author’s life, and Notes historical and exaplanatory, by John Hawkesworth.
The large octavo first Hawkesworth edition of Swift’s works, which preceded the quarto edition of 1755, complete in twelve volumes but later expanded to twenty-five by 1779 with the addition of Letters etc. This was one of the two most important eighteenth-century editions of Swift, published in competition with Faulkner’s Dublin edition.
Teerink-Scouten 88.
