The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., D.S.P.D., in eight volumes. Containing I. His Miscellanies in Prose. II. His Poetical Writings. III. The Travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and the Drapier's Letters. V. The Conduct of the Allies, and the Examiner. VI. The Publick Spirit of the Whiggs, &c., with Polite Conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to Servants, Sermons, Poems, &c
An eight-volume collected edition of Jonathan Swift's prose, verse, Gulliver's Travels, Irish pamphlets and letters, printed in Dublin by his own publisher George Faulkner in 1746 for subscribing readers. The illustrations are letterpress woodcut headbands and tailpieces worn from reuse: horizontal panels of acanthus scrollwork framing putti, urns of fruit and flowers, birds and masked grotesques, useful as section dividers, borders and repeatable ornament units.
