A treatise on polite conversation..
Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.
Campbell, John,-1808,former owner.StEdNL
Richardson, Andrew T.(Andrew Turnbull),1872-1956,former owner.StEdNL
Dublin, printed: and, Belfast: : Re-printed, by and for S. Wilson and J. Magee, at Burnet's Head in North Street; and J. Potts, bookseller in Bridgestreet.,
M,DCC,XXXVIII [1738]..
Author identified in the introduction as Simon Wagstaff, Esq., i.e. Jonathan Swift.
The text proper has a second title page: A compleat collection of genteel and ingenious conversation, according to the most polite mode and method, now used at court, and in the best companies of England. In several dialogues. Dublin, printed: and, Belfast: re-printed, by and for S. Wilson and J. Magee, at Burnet's Head in North Street; and J. Potts, book-seller in Bridge Street. M,DCC,XXXVIII.
Bound with: Maxwell, Robert. The practical bee-master. Edinburgh: Printed by Robert Drummond, MDCCXLVII [1747].
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Provenance: the recto of the front free endpaper reads " Ex libris Ioannis Campbell 1796 [potius?] 1750. Bookplate on the verso of the front free enpaper reads "Presented by A.T. Richardson, Esq., Kirkaldy. November, 1947".
Conversation
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