The Correspondence Of Jonathan Swift DD In Five Volumes : Volume I Letters 1690 - 1714, Volume II Letters 1714 - 1726, Volume III Letters 1726 - 1734, Volume IV Letters 1734 - 1745, Volume V Index [ 5 volumes complete ]

Swift, Jonathan & Woolley, David

ISBN 10: 0820435481 / ISBN 13: 9780820435480

Verlag: Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1999 - 2014, 1999

Cloth, dj, F/F. 5 volumes, 650pp, xxii+661pp, xxii+760pp, xxiv+674pp, [vi]+307pp, grand total of 64pp b/w plates, frontis to vol 3, vols 2 & 4 with decorated endpapers, a fine set, New. A monumental work, with 1508 letters transcribed. The volumes contain letters to some 230 contemporaries as well as their letters to Swift. 6450 grams. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 61760

Inhaltsangabe:

The collected letters of Jonathan Swift D.D., Irish dean and celebrated author of Gulliver's Travels, have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. In the half century from 1690 to 1740 some two hundred and thirty contemporaries, in all walks of life, thought to preserve his autograph: among the were his literary friends, his printers and publishers, politicians of the day in England and Ireland, his ecclesiastical superiors and other clergy, his friends of the nobility, and closer friends and relatives. He also diligently kept many of their replies. Together these project a marvellously animated panorama not only of his own, life, but of his varied acquaintance, and the scenes of London, Dublin, and rural Ireland through a deeply interesting historical era. This entirely new edition new edition prepared by a recognized authority presents over 1500 letters, derived from the earliest authentic texts in manuscript or print, and provides the most comprehensive commentary to date, based upon published and unpublished research of the last thirty years.

Reseña del editor: The collected letters of Jonathan Swift D.D., Irish dean and celebrated author of Gulliver's Travels, have long been esteemed with the best to have emerged from eighteenth century England, an age distinguished for the excellence of its letters. In the half century from 1690 to 1740 some two hundred and thirty contemporaries, in all walks of life, thought to preserve his autograph: among the were his literary friends, his printers and publishers, politicians of the day in England and Ireland, his ecclesiastical superiors and other clergy, his friends of the nobility, and closer friends and relatives. He also diligently kept many of their replies. Together these project a marvellously animated panorama not only of his own, life, but of his varied acquaintance, and the scenes of London, Dublin, and rural Ireland through a deeply interesting historical era. This entirely new edition new edition prepared by a recognized authority presents over 1500 letters, derived from the earliest authentic texts in manuscript or print, and provides the most comprehensive commentary to date, based upon published and unpublished research of the last thirty years.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Correspondence Of Jonathan Swift DD In ...
Verlag: Peter Lang, Frankfurt 1999 - 2014
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: New
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
Auflage: 1st edition.