![[SWIFT, Jonathan]. The Grand Question debated: whether Hamilton’s Bawn should be turn’d into a barrack, or a malt-house. According to the London edition, with notes. [Dublin]: London printed by A. Moore. And, Dublin re-printed by George Faulkner, 1732.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2015/NYR/2015_NYR_12435_0199_000(swift_jonathan_the_grand_question_debated_whether_hamiltons_bawn_shoul121408).jpg?w=1)
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[SWIFT, Jonathan]. The Grand Question debated: whether Hamilton’s Bawn should be turn’d into a barrack, or a malt-house. According to the London edition, with notes. [Dublin]: London printed by A. Moore. And, Dublin re-printed by George Faulkner, 1732.
8° (212 x 130mm). Final advertisement leaf. (Fore-margins frayed, title somewhat soiled and creased, soiling to page edges and final verso.) Stitched in contemporary blue wrappers, uncut; modern grey paper folder with title label.
FIRST DUBLIN EDITION published mid January 1732. The name A. Moore in the imprint is a subterfuge to avoid copyright difficulties. The approximately simultaneous London edition by J. Roberts was published under the different title of A Soldier and a Scholar (see previous lot); the two versions are thought to have been copied from different manuscripts. This Dublin edition preserves some Hiberno-English phonetic spellings not found in the London edition. Swift wrote the poem in September, 1728, during his stay with the Achesons at Market Hill, co. Armagh. Williams (847) observes that his intense two year friendship with Sir Arthur and Lady Acheson “was productive of some of his best verse.” This poem expresses the thought that Lady Acheson is tiring of him. Her maid is only too happy to imagine his place as her privileged guest being taken by a finely dressed, book averse army officer, arriving at the head of a column of troops. Foxon S908; Rogers 796; Rothschild 2130 and 2271 (holograph MS of this version); Teerink 714; Williams 863.
8° (212 x 130mm). Final advertisement leaf. (Fore-margins frayed, title somewhat soiled and creased, soiling to page edges and final verso.) Stitched in contemporary blue wrappers, uncut; modern grey paper folder with title label.
FIRST DUBLIN EDITION published mid January 1732. The name A. Moore in the imprint is a subterfuge to avoid copyright difficulties. The approximately simultaneous London edition by J. Roberts was published under the different title of A Soldier and a Scholar (see previous lot); the two versions are thought to have been copied from different manuscripts. This Dublin edition preserves some Hiberno-English phonetic spellings not found in the London edition. Swift wrote the poem in September, 1728, during his stay with the Achesons at Market Hill, co. Armagh. Williams (847) observes that his intense two year friendship with Sir Arthur and Lady Acheson “was productive of some of his best verse.” This poem expresses the thought that Lady Acheson is tiring of him. Her maid is only too happy to imagine his place as her privileged guest being taken by a finely dressed, book averse army officer, arriving at the head of a column of troops. Foxon S908; Rogers 796; Rothschild 2130 and 2271 (holograph MS of this version); Teerink 714; Williams 863.