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The Contents of 40 Papers

Description: Manuscript. Handwritten numbered list of abbreviated titles for the second thirty-eight pieces bound in the volume, including entries for "21. Receipt for Making Epigrams" and "40. Hue & Cry after Burtons Bank," which are not present in the volume.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1710s-1734.
Call number: 143198-143259
Provenance: Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915. The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899).
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The Contents of 40 Papers

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Manuscript. Fragment of a page, showing a partial handwritten list of abbreviated titles for the first forty pieces bound in the volume.

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This bound volume contains 79 manuscript and printed broadsides chiefly from the 1720s and 1730s with satirical, humorous, and political ballads, poems, and prose by various Anglo-Irish writers, dramatists, and clerics including Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Some of the unattributed manuscript poems and annotations are purported to be by Swift. The volume includes sixteen handwritten items and sixty-three printed texts. The printed items were primarily printed in Dublin, Ireland, with six printed by Dublin printers John Harding and Sarah Harding. The items are numbered and separated into two parts, each preceded by a contemporary handwritten table of contents. The volume has previously been referred to in print as the Dublin Broadsides. It is bound in a leather binding with the spine title "Broadsides by Swift and others : ms. and printed."

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[See my Nassau, Feel my Nassau, Kiss my Nassau.]

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First line: Oh my Nassau did you see how I languish, Manuscript. Untitled poem. Devised title based on abbreviated entry in the table of contents: "See my nas. Feel my nas. Kiss--"

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Broadsides by Jonathan Swift and others

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Broadsides by Swift and others : ms. and printed

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Broadsides by Jonathan Swift and others

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