Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. A serious poem upon William Wood, brasier, tinker, hard-ware-man, coiner, counterfeiter, founder and esquire

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Imprint: Dublin : printed by John Harding, [1724]

First line: When Foes are o'ercome, we preserve them from Slaughter,

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Printed. Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift.

Type

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Date

1725

Call number

143215

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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Associated people

Barber, Mary, (approximately 1685-1755.)

Belcher, James. (1687?-1743.)

Carey, Henry, (1685 or 1686-1768.)

Delany, Patrick, (1834-1899,)

Grant, Francis, (1847-1918.)

Halsey, Frederic R. (-1725,)

Harding, John, (active 1721-1729.)

Harding, Sarah, (1685-1763.)

King, William, (1711-1736.)

Mountcashell, Edward Davys, (1674-1749.)

Owens, Samuel. (1687-1738.)

Philips, Ambrose, (1671-1729.)

Sheridan, Thomas, (-1738.)

Smedley, Jonathan, (1667-1745.)

Stretzer, Thomas, (1685-1740.)

Swift, Jonathan,

Tickell, Thomas,

Ware, Henry,

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