SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745). The Works... Accurately revised in six volumes. Edited by John Hawkesworth. London: 1755. 6 volumes, 4 (275 x 217mm). Titles in red and black. 26 engraved plates only (of 27), 4pp. engraved sheet music on 2ll. (Lacking frontispiece to vol.I and blanks, L2 & 3 and one plate detached in vol.I, some spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (extremities ruubed and chipped). Provenance : Henry Mussenden Leathes (Herringfleet Hall, Suffolk, armorial bookplate). Cf. Teerink 87. Alexander POPE (1688-1744). The Works . London: for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan [etc.], 1770. 9 volumes, 8 (211 x 135mm). Engraved plates. (Some spotting.) Contemporary vellum, covers ruled in blue, the flat spines with blue-stained oblong tooled and lettered in gilt (light soiling). Provenance : Oliver Pemberton (armorial bookplate); Ernest & Mary Fordham (bookplate). Algernon SYDNEY (1622-1683). Discourses concerning Government.. the second edition carefully corrected. London: J.Darby, 1704. 2 (402 x 232mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. English red morocco gilt, covers filled with fillets and roll-tools, outer border with bulbous vase tool at corners, inner panel with large snail tool, spine gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (joints and corners repaired). Provenance : Victor Villiers, Earl of Jersey (Middleton Park armorial bookplate); John Hely-Hutchinson (book-label). [John DRYDEN, Joseph ADDISON and others, translators]. Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1717. (395 x 245mm). Engraved frontispiece, portrait of the Princess of Wales, 16 plates. (Light worming to outer blank margins of first few leaves.) Contemporary panelled calf (spine and corners repaired.) Provenance : John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842, armorial bookplate). Lowndes III, p.1745; and four other works in six folio volumes (John Locke, The Works... fourth edition , London: 1740, 3 vols.; Sir Thomas Browne. The Works, London: 1686; King James I, The Workes. London: 1616; John Dryden and others [translators], The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, London: 1693). (23)
SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745). The Works... Accurately revised in six volumes. Edited by John Hawkesworth. London: 1755. 6 volumes, 4 (275 x 217mm). Titles in red and black. 26 engraved plates only (of 27), 4pp. engraved sheet music on 2ll. (Lacking frontispiece to vol.I and blanks, L2 & 3 and one plate detached in vol.I, some spotting.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (extremities ruubed and chipped). Provenance : Henry Mussenden Leathes (Herringfleet Hall, Suffolk, armorial bookplate). Cf. Teerink 87. Alexander POPE (1688-1744). The Works . London: for C. Bathurst, W. Strahan [etc.], 1770. 9 volumes, 8 (211 x 135mm). Engraved plates. (Some spotting.) Contemporary vellum, covers ruled in blue, the flat spines with blue-stained oblong tooled and lettered in gilt (light soiling). Provenance : Oliver Pemberton (armorial bookplate); Ernest & Mary Fordham (bookplate). Algernon SYDNEY (1622-1683). Discourses concerning Government.. the second edition carefully corrected. London: J.Darby, 1704. 2 (402 x 232mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece. English red morocco gilt, covers filled with fillets and roll-tools, outer border with bulbous vase tool at corners, inner panel with large snail tool, spine gilt, gilt turn-ins, g.e. (joints and corners repaired). Provenance : Victor Villiers, Earl of Jersey (Middleton Park armorial bookplate); John Hely-Hutchinson (book-label). [John DRYDEN, Joseph ADDISON and others, translators]. Ovid's Metamorphoses in fifteen books. Translated by the most eminent hands. London: for Jacob Tonson, 1717. (395 x 245mm). Engraved frontispiece, portrait of the Princess of Wales, 16 plates. (Light worming to outer blank margins of first few leaves.) Contemporary panelled calf (spine and corners repaired.) Provenance : John Rolle, Baron Rolle of Stevenstone (1750-1842, armorial bookplate). Lowndes III, p.1745; and four other works in six folio volumes (John Locke, The Works... fourth edition , London: 1740, 3 vols.; Sir Thomas Browne. The Works, London: 1686; King James I, The Workes. London: 1616; John Dryden and others [translators], The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus, London: 1693). (23)
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