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Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Title(s):
Directions to servants / by the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin ; with decorations by John Nash.
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire : The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:
[4], 35, [3] pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TX333 .S95 1925+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"Here end 'Directions to servants,' by the Reverend Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, at Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire, and completed on the 3rd of January, 1925. Compositors: F. Young, A.H. Gibbs, & W.R. Mills. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. Wood-engravings by John Nash. The edition is limited to 380 copies, of which 350 are for sale."--Colophon.
Text in double columns.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 23
BEIN 2014 +369: No. 8 signed by the illustrator. Unopened. Binder's stamp: Bound by Mansell & Co., London.
SML,Y Ik Sw55 +745f: Number 182.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 51 of 380. Bound in quarter parchment with green paper covered boards.
Subject Terms:
Household employees -- Great Britain.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence.
Wood engravings -- 1925.
Binders' stamps (Binding) -- Mansell & Co.
Contributors:
Nash, John, 1893–1977, illustrator.
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Mansell & Co., binder.
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