Le grand mistere, ou L'art de mediter sur la garderobe; /
Desfontaines, Pierre-François Guyot,1685-1745,tr.
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745,supposed author.
[A La Haye, : Chez Jean van Duren.,
1729.]
Signatures: A-N¹² O⁶ (N₁, verso, N₂₋₈ O₁₋₅, advertisements; O₆ blank)
Title in red and black.
Each part has special title-page, dated 1729. The first part published later (1743) under title: L'art de mediter sur la chaise percée.
Probably a translation of The grand mystery, or Art of meditating over an house of office, restor'd and unveil'd; after the manner of the ingenious Dr. S--ft ... London, 1726. Cf. "Doubtful and supposititious works." Bibl. comp. by W.S. Jackson in Prose works of Swift, ed. by T. Scott. 1908, v. 12, p. 224; also Lowndes, Manual, p. 2561; and Barbier, v. 2, c. 563. Translated by Desfontaines.
"Catalogue des livres imprimez par Jean van Duren": p. [194]-218.
Cf. Teerink, H. A bibliography of ... Jonathan Swift. The Hague, 1937, p. 331, no. 933.