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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Imprint: Dublin : printed in the year, 1724.
First line: When first the 'Squire and Tinker Wood
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Printed. Anonymous. By Jonathan Swift. With handwritten annotation below title: "By Dean Swift."
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."
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--"
