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Jonathan Swift

Male : Prose Satirist. English parents. Came to England 1688 and took Anglican orders. A Whig at first, then became a Tory (1710). Retired to Ireland 1714. Esther Johnson (Stella)(1681-1728) figured very importantly in his life but it is unknown if he ever married her. It has been said that in his will he left £11.000
Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Hoey's Court, Dublin

Date of Birth : 1667 Date of Death : 1745 Age : 78

Other Work : Rector of Laracor, Meath from 1700. Dean of St Patrick's in Dublin

Education : Kilkenny GS & Trinity College, Dublin
1703-1710
(Ed) Letters Written by Sir William Temple and Other Ministers of State (1700-3) - 3 vols
(Ed) Miscellanea : The Third Part by William Temple (1701)
A Discourse of the Contests and Dissensions Between the Nobles and the Commons
in Athens and Rome
(1701)
The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift : Written By Himself
(1703 for J Roberts, London)
A Tale of a Tub : Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind, to Which is Added
an Account of a Battle Between the Ancient & Modern Books in St James's Library
(1704)
(1704 for John Nutt, London 2nd Ed)
The Battle of the Books - between the Ancient & Modern Books in St James's Library
(1704)
The Predictions of, Answer To, and Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq
(1708, 1709)
A Project for the Advancement of Religion and the Formation of Manners
(1709)
Baucis and Philemon, Imitated from Ovid
(1709)
(Ed) Memoirs : Part III by William Temple (1709)

1711-1720
A New Journey to Paris
(1711)
Miscellanies in Prose & Verse, incl "Meditations upon a Broomstick"
(1711)
(1713 John Morphew, London. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1998 for £245
The Conduct of the Allies, and of the late Ministry ..
(1711 John Morphew. 2nd Ed)
A Proposal for Correcting, Improving & Ascertaining the English Tongue
(1712 Benj Tooke, London)
Some Remarks on the Barrier Treaty, between Her Majesty and the States-General
(1712 John Morphew, London) - Anon
Mr Collins's Discourse of Free-Thinking
(1713)
Part of the Seventh Epistle of the First Book of Horace Imitated
(1713)
The First Ode of the Second Book of Horace Paraphrased
(1713)
The Publick Spirit of the Whigs
(1714 for John Morphew, London)
A Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish Manufactures
(1720 Dublin)
(Attributed to) The Right of Precedence between Physicians & Civilians
(1720 Dublin & J Roberts, London)

1721-1730
The Bubble
(1721)
The Drapier Letters
(concerning the Brass halfpence coined by Mr Woods) (1724)
Fraud Detected, or The Hibernian Patriot, Containing all the Drapier's Letters
to the People of Ireland
(1725)
Cadenus and Vanessa
(Poem) (1726)
[The story of his relationship with Esther Vanhomrigh
(1690-1723)]
The Grand Mystery, or Art of Meditating over an House of Office
(1726 for A More, London)
[A Swift imitation]
Offered in 1999 for £1200
Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
(1727-32) - 4 vols. et al
A Short View of the Present State of Ireland
(1728)
A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being Burthen to Their
Parents or the Country
(1729)
The Intelligencer
(1729 sold by A Moor, London - 1st book form)
(1730 for Francis Cogan, London 2nd Ed) - with Thomas Sheridan
The Hibernian Patriot
(1730 A Moor, London) - Anon
Horace, Book 1, Ode XIV, Paraphrased
(1730)

1731-1740
Verses on the Death of Dr Swift, written by himself
(1731)
An Examination of Certain Abuses, Corruptions and Enormities in the City of Dublin
(1732)
The Lady's Dressing Room, to Which is Added a Poem on Cutting Down the Old Thorn at Market Hill
(1732)
An Elegy on Dicky and Dolly
(1732)
The Life and Genuine Character of Doctor Swift, Written by Himself
(1733)
On Poetry : a Rapsody
(1734 J Huggonson, Edinburgh) - Anon
An Epistle to a Lady
(1734)
A Beautiful Young Nymph Goiung to Bed
(1734)
The Works
(1735)
An Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace
(1738)
- completed by Alexander Pope
A Complete Collection of Genteel & Ingenious Conversations, in Three Dialogues
(1738 London)

1741-1750
Some Free Thoughts upon the Present State of Affairs Written in the Year 1714
(1741)
Three Sermons : On Mutual Subjection, On the Conscience, On the Trinity, On the Difficulty of
Knowing One's Self
(1744)
Journal to Stella
Directions to Servants
(1745)
The Last Will and Testament of Swift
(1746)

1751-1800
Brotherly Love : A Sermon
(1754)
The Works .. Revised in 12 Volumes
(1755-64 London) - 14 vols
The History of the Four Last Years of the Queen .. Published from the Last MS Copy
(1758 A Millar, London)
The Works
(1761 Edinburgh) - 8 vols
The Works, including Letters
(1766-8 W Bowyer, London) - 22 vols. Edited by J Hawksworth
Directions to Servants in General
(1778 R Morison, Perth)

1801-1900
The Works
(1803 London. New Ed) - 24 vols
Poetical Works
(1807 Cadell) - 3 vols
The Works ..
(1808 for J Johnson, London) - 19 vols
The Beauties of Swift, consisting of Selections from His Works
(1834 for Thos Tegg, London)
The Works : With a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe
(1850 Bohn) - 2 vols
The Poetical Works
(1853 Wm Pickering, Aldine Poets. 2nd Ed) - 3 vols
Letters and Journals : Edited by Stanley Lane-Poole
(1885 Kegan Paul) - 50 Large Paper
The Works : with a Memoir of the Author by Thomas Roscoe
(1888 London) - 2 vols
The Prose Works
(1897-1908 George Bell) - 12 vols. Edited by Temple Scott
Offered in 1999 for £250
Unpublished Letters of Dean Swift : Edited by George Birkbeck Hill
(c1900 Stokes, NY)

20thC
The Complete Works
(1906-9 Greening) - 6 vols. edited by Henry Blanchamp
The Correspondence
(1910-14 Bell, London) - 6 vols. Edited by F Elrington Ball
Journal to Stella
(1974 OUP) - Edited by Harold Williams
Directions to Servants
(1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 380. John Nash
Selected Essays
(1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 450. John Farleigh
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World
(1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - 2 vols. 480. David Jones
Miscellaneous Poems
(1928 Golden Cockerel Press) - 375. Robert Gibbings
The Letters of Jonathan Swift to Charles Ford
(1935 Clarendon) - Edited by David Nichol Smith
The Drapier's Letters
(1935 Oxford) - Edited by Herbert Davis
The Poems
(1937 Clarendon) - 3 vols. Edited by Harold Williams
The Prose Works
(1939-68) - 14 vols. edited by Herbert Davis
Some Unpublished Marginalia of Jonathan Swift
(1945 CUP) - 100. edited by Lord Rothschild
Journal to Stella
(1948 Clarendon Press) - 2 vols. Edited by Harold Williams
Irish Tracts 1728-1733
(1955 Oxford) - Edited by Herbert Davis
Swift's Polite Conversation : With Notes by Eric Partridge
(1963 Deutsch)
The Correspondence
(1963-5 Oxford) - 5 vols. Edited by Harold Williams
The Drapier's Letter to the People of Ireland against receiving Wood's Halfpence
(1965 Clarendon Press)
Poetical Works
(1967 OUP) - Edited by Herbert Davis
Stella's Birth-Days : Poems
(1967 Dolmen Press, Dublin) - 750
A Dialogue in Hibernian Style Between A & B & Irish Eloquence
(1977 Cadenus Press, Dublin) - 300

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS
[The sailor Lemuel Gulliver sails to four fantastic places : Lilliput, where the people are
six inches tall, Brobdingnag - where the people are giants, Laputa - a flying island, and the
land of the Houyhnhms - populated by civilized horses]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in 4 parts, by Lemuel Gulliver
(1726 Benjamin Motte) - 2 vols
[Over 10,000 copies are said to have been sold in 3 weeks]
(1727 Benjamin Motte, London 3rd Ed) - 2 vols
(1782 Harrison & Son, London) - 2 vols

19thC
(1804 sold by Theophilus Barrois, London & Paris)
(1815 J Lumsden, Glasgow) - Chapbook
(c1860 Beeton) - woodcuts after J G Thomson
(1866) - Thomas Morten
(1879 Warne) - H K Browne
(1880 Routledge) - Gordon Browne
(c1880 McLoughlin Bros, NY)
(c1890 E Nister / Dutton) - A E Jackson
(1894 Macmillan) - C E Brock

1900-1910
(1900 JL, Bodley Head) - Herbert Cole
(1900 Dent Temple Classics) - Signed Ltd Ed 750. - Arthur Rackham
(1904 A & C Black) - Stephen Baghot De La Bere
(1908 Nelson) - John Hassall
(1909 Dent) - 750 signed by Arthur Rackham
Offered in 1998 for £940
(1909 Dent) - 1st Trade Edition. Arthur Rackham

1911-1925
(1913 Dent Tales from Many Lands) - Arthur Rackham
(1917 Macmillan US) (1919 Harrap) - Willy Pogany
(c1920 Nister, London & Dutton, NY) - A E Jackson
(1920 Heinemann) - Jean de Bosschere
(1923 Harper US) - Louis Rhead
(1925 Golden Cockerel Press) - David Jones. 450. 2 vols
Offered in 1996 for £750

After 1926
(1926 Text of the First Edition : First Editions Club, London) - Edited by Harold Williams
(1929 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by A King
(1930 Cresset Press, US) - 2 vols. Ltd Ed 205. Rex Whistler
The Children's Gulliver
(1935 Harrap) - Willy Pogany
(1937 Temple Press, London) - Arthur Rackham
(1938 Hodder & Stoughton) - R W Mossa
Gulliver's Travels & Selected Writings
(1946 Nonesuch Press)
(1947 Routledge) - Jack Matthews
(1947 Crown, NY) - Luis Quintanilla
(1948 Folio Society) - Edward Bawden
(1948 Mount Vernon) - W A Dwiggins
Gulliver in Brobdingnag
(c1950s Bancroft, London) - 2 pop-ups
The Text of Gulliver's Travels : By Sir Harold Williams
(1952 CUP)
(nd. c1952 Heirloom Library) - Janet & Anne Johnston
(1952 Dent Dutton Children's Classics) - Arthur Rackham

READING
18thC
John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery : Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift
(1752)
Patrick Delany : Observations upon Lord Orrery's Remarks on the Life &
Writings of Dr Jonathan Swift
(1754)
Deane Swift : An Essay upon the Life, Writings & Character of Dr Jonathan Swift
(1755)
John Hawkesworth : LIfe of Dr Jonathan Swift
(1755)
Thomas Sheridan : The Life of the Rev Dr Jonathan Swift, Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin
(1784)

19thC
W R Wilde : The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life
(1849 Hodges & Smith, Dublin. 2nd Ed)
John Forster : LIfe of Swift
(1876)
Leslie Stephen : Swift
(1882)
Henry Craik : The Life of Jonathan Swift
(1894. 2nd Ed)

20thC
Stephen Gwynn : The Life & Friendships of Dean Swift
(1933)
H Teerink : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of Jonathan Swift
(1937 Nijhoff, The Hague) - 315 signed
R Wyse Jackson : Swift and His Circle - A Book of Essays
(1945 Talbot Press, Dublin)
John Middleton Murry : Jonathan Swift - A Critical Biography
(1954 Longmans)
R Quintana : Swift - an Introduction
(1955)
Denis Johnston : In Search of Swift
(1959)
Irvin Ehrenpreis : Swift - The Man, His Works and the Age
(1962-83) - 3 vols
H Teerink : A Bibliography of the Writings in Prose & Verse of Jonathan Swift
(1963 Univ of Penn Press 2nd Ed)
Michael Shinagel : A Concordance to the Poems of Jonathan Swift
(1972 Cornell, NY)
A L Rowse : Jonathan Swift - Major Prophet
(1975)
Patrick Reilly : Jonathan Swift the Brave Desponder
(1982 Manchester UP)
J A Downie : Jonathan Swift - Political Writer
(1984 Routledge £25)
David Nokes : Jonathan Swift - A Hypocrite Reversed - A Critical Biography
(1985)
Joseph McMinn : Jonathan Swift - A Literary Life
(1991)
(Ed) Joseph McMinn : Swift's Irish Pamphlets (1991)
Joseph McMinn : Jonathan's Travels - Swift and Ireland
(1994 Appletree Press, Belfast £15.99)
Victoria Glendinning : Jonathan Swift
(1998 Hutchinson £20)

Related Writers

Edward Bawden
Edinburgh
Folio Society
Golden Cockerel Press
David Jones
Willy Pogany
Alexander Pope
Arthur Rackham


See also

Gordon Frederick Browne
Children's Illustrated Classics
Everyman Series 1-500
Everyman Series 501-1000
Robert John Gibbings
In Print 1994 Penguin Classics
Phiz
Alfred Leslie Rowse
Sir Walter Scott