1970 A Tale of a Tub: To Which is Added The Battle of the Books and The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit

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First Edition, Leather Binding, Limited Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

In full morocco binding by Orrin & Greer Limited, London.

This is a limited edition of this work, being copy number sixty of one thousand five hundred and sixty copies of this book printed, of which one thousand fie hundred are for sale.

Originally published in 1704 and here reissued in by The Fraser Press, elegantly bound in full morocco. 

This is Jonathan Swift’s first popular satire and arguably one of his most complex. Through a mock-apologetic style, Swift critiques the dominant religion of his time, taking particular aim at the divisions within Christianity (Catholicism, Anglicanism, and Dissenters) under the allegorical guise of three brothers.