The Drapier's letters to the people of Ireland against receiving Wood's halfpence / by Jonathan Swift; edited by Herbert Davis
1965, Reprint. Oxford : The Clarendon Press. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #466403
Physical description; xcv, 400 pages facsimiles, frontispiece 23 cm. Notes; With facsimiles of original title pages. "Bibliographical and textual": pages lxviii-lxxx; "Collation": pages lxxxi-xcv. Contents; Appendixes: I. Later activities of the Drapier -- II. Other pamphlets and broadsides in prose concerning Wood's coinage -- III. Verse written by, or attributed to the Drapier. Other verse concerning Wood's coinage. Version written in praise of the Drapier -- IV. Imitations of the Drapier's letters. Subjects; Wood, William 1671-1730. Wood, William 1671-1730 Studies. Swift, Jonathan 1667-1745. Drapier's letters to the people of Ireland against receiving Wood's halfpence. Money Ireland History. Coinage Ireland.
Price: €60.00