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128 - [Swift (Jonathan), Joseph Addison & Richard Steele]. [The Tatler]. The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, 271 issues in 2 vol., contemporary ink ownership to front free endpapers, foxing and browning throughout, issues 66 and 67 folded along bottom edge, vol. 2 lacking title, dedication, and index, and first free endpaper is loose, hinges to vol. 1 broken, hinges cracked to vol 2., contemporary calf, rubbed, joints split, small losses to spine ends, housed in a modern cloth clamshell case, [Rothschild 1948], folio, John Morphew, 1710-[11].
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[Swift (Jonathan), Joseph Addison & Richard Steele]. [The Tatler]. The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, 271 issues in 2 vol., contemporary ink ownership to front free endpapers, foxing and browning throughout, issues 66 and 67 folded along bottom edge, vol. 2 lacking title, dedication, and index, and first free endpaper is loose, hinges to vol. 1 broken, hinges cracked to vol 2., contemporary calf, rubbed, joints split, small losses to spine ends, housed in a modern cloth clamshell case, [Rothschild 1948], folio, John Morphew, 1710-[11]. *** Though the numbers began to appear in 1709, the printer, John Nutt, didn't register the copyright until 2 May 1710. "Of the 271 numbers Steele wrote 188, Addison 42, and the two jointly 36" (Rothschild). Isaac Bickerstaff was Jonathan Swift's pseudonym used to mock and predict the death of astrologer and almanac-maker John Partridge.
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