[SWIFT, Jonathan]. The Drapier's Miscellany, Dublin: by and for James Hoey, 1733. 12°, 42pp. (heavily soiled, E1 shaved at lower margin with loss of catch letter, some upper margins also shaved, lacks final advertisement leaf as does the British Library copy). Second of two editions listed by Teerink. Pieces II, III, VII and IX are by Swift. Teerink 38. Bound with:

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[SWIFT, Jonathan]. The Drapier's Miscellany, Dublin: by and for James Hoey, 1733. 12°, 42pp. (heavily soiled, E1 shaved at lower margin with loss of catch letter, some upper margins also shaved, lacks final advertisement leaf as does the British Library copy). Second of two editions listed by Teerink. Pieces II, III, VII and IX are by Swift. Teerink 38. Bound with:

A Picture of the Age, drawn by D____ S____ in the following characters, viz. I. The Courtier II. The Parson III. The Hypocrite IV. An Original and a Modern Quaker V. The Miser VI. The Prodigal Son VII. The City Letcher VIII. The Insatiate wife IX. The Amorous Maid X. The Beau Apprentice XI. The Country Squire. Dublin: by and for James Hoey, 1735. 12°, 24pp. (heavily dampstained, tear to upper margin of A2 affecting typographical ornament and headline on verso, tears at inner margins). Not attributed to Swift by Teerink. Apparently not in ESTCm. [and:]

The Benefit of Farting explained; or, The fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair-sex ... by Obadiah Fizle ... to which is added The Wonderful Wonder of Wonders, [Dublin]: James Hoey, 1735. 2 works issued in one pamphlet, 12°, 24pp. (title soiled, text heavily dampstained). Both titles were at one time attributed to Swift. The first was originally published in 1722, and the second, which is possibly by Thomas Sheridan, in [?] 1720. This edition apparently not in ESTCm.

The three pamphlets bound with several others in one volume, contemporary blue boards backed in calf (worn).

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