The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. ... containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, not hitherto published ; with notes, and a life of the author, by Walter Scott, Esq. ...
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.
Scott, Walter,1771-1832,proofreader.StEdNL
Shortrede, Andrew,active 1830-1843,former owner.StEdNL
Hogg, Robert,active 1814,former owner.StEdNL
Memes,Dr.,active 1844,former owner.StEdNL
Edinburgh printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; White, Cochrane, and Co. and Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, London; and John Cumming, Dublin.
1814
The front free endpaper is inscribed "And Shortrede This volume contains a portion of the copy from which the second edition of Sir Walter Scotts Swift was printed. The MS notes and corrections, at pp. Polite Conversation [?] Title - 429 - Tale of a Tub pp 1 - 72 - Operation of the Spirit - 289 - Letter to Writer of occasional paper 349 - Pulteney to Walpole 360 - 1 - Public Absurdities 366 - Character of Dr Sheridan 511 - Second Solomon 573 - 514 - Hospital for Incurables 544 - are with handwriting of Sir Walter - the copy[underlined] of this & other three volumes was preserved by Robert Hogg at that time a Reader or Corrector at the Press & by him given to And Shortrede". The volume comprises proofs of volume XI pages 291-429, 1-289, volume XII pages 389-467, volume X pages 329-366, volume IX pages 509-544, volume X pages 321-327, with manuscript notes and marginalia by Scott, as noted in the inscription on the free endpaper. A printed note, "Left in custody of DR MEMES on my departure for China in 1844" with a manuscript inscription "from And Shortrede", is afixed to the back pastedown.