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71. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised ... : with some account of the author's life, and notes historical and explanatory / by John Hawkesworth. (London : printed for C. Bathurst, C. Davis, C. Hitch and L. Haws, J. Hodges, R. and J. Dodsley, and W. Bowyer, 1754-55) 12 v.

71. Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, accurately revised

This was the first posthumous edition of the Works and supplanted Faulkner’s Dublin edition of 1735. Hawkesworth’s "Life of Dr. Swift" in vol. 1 is the first attempt at an objective biography. The frontispiece is from The Tale of a Tub.

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