[BOYLE, JOHN, Fifth Earl of Orrery.]

Remarks on the life and writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin; in a series of letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamiltron Boyle. The second edition, corrected.

London: A. Millar, 1752. 8vo, pp. [2], 214, [8]; engraved frontis portrait of Swift; contemporary and probably original calf-backed marbled boards, label perished but a good, sound, venerable copy of the first biography of Swift, first published in Dublin in November, 1751. For rthe first London edition of the same year see Lowndes III, 1734; Rothschild 1492; and Teerink 1333. Item #15798

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