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SWIFT IMITATION. Predictions for the year, 1712. By Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; in a letter to the author of the Oxford Almanack. London: [s.n.], 1712.
8° (200 x 125mm). Unbound and uncut.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Before the name "Isaac Bickerstaff" was used in the first number of Steele’s Tatler, 12 April 1709, Bickerstaff had already become familiar to London readers as the name of a participant in the elaborate literary hoax of the year before invented and pursued by Swift, who had supposedly adopted the name from a locksmith’s sign. The writer of this tract, claiming to be the real Bickerstaff, accuses Bickerstaff the astrologer of being as much an impostor as Partridge. “I can’t but express my Resentment against a gentleman who personated me in a Paper call’d Mr. Bickerstaff’s Vindication. I’m griev’d to find the Times should be so very wicked, that one impostor should set up to Reprove another, and that a false Bickerstaff should write against an imaginary Partridge.” A RARITY ON THE MARKET. Teerink 1029.
8° (200 x 125mm). Unbound and uncut.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Before the name "Isaac Bickerstaff" was used in the first number of Steele’s Tatler, 12 April 1709, Bickerstaff had already become familiar to London readers as the name of a participant in the elaborate literary hoax of the year before invented and pursued by Swift, who had supposedly adopted the name from a locksmith’s sign. The writer of this tract, claiming to be the real Bickerstaff, accuses Bickerstaff the astrologer of being as much an impostor as Partridge. “I can’t but express my Resentment against a gentleman who personated me in a Paper call’d Mr. Bickerstaff’s Vindication. I’m griev’d to find the Times should be so very wicked, that one impostor should set up to Reprove another, and that a false Bickerstaff should write against an imaginary Partridge.” A RARITY ON THE MARKET. Teerink 1029.