Polite Conversation in three Dialogues
Jonathan Swift
1892
Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press
12mo
Description:
Limited to 450 copies printed on handmade paper this is numbered no. 82. Printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham. Swift’s last great satire, first published in 1738 under the title A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation by “Simon Wagstaff, Esq.”, is a mock-conversation manual which parodies the stale idioms and proverbs of fashionable society, reproducing, with a mock-solemn introduction, three dialogues of the empty chatter of ladies and gentlemen.
Condition:
Good Condition. Vellum style spine with grey paper covered boards. Binding is firm. Foxed. Offsetting to title page. Ex libris to inside front cover. Boards are tanned to edges. Darkening to spine with some wear to edges.
Polite Conversation in three Dialogues
Jonathan Swift
1892
Charles Whittingham, Chiswick Press
12mo
Description:
Limited to 450 copies printed on handmade paper this is numbered no. 82. Printed at the Chiswick Press by Charles Whittingham. Swift’s last great satire, first published in 1738 under the title A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation by “Simon Wagstaff, Esq.”, is a mock-conversation manual which parodies the stale idioms and proverbs of fashionable society, reproducing, with a mock-solemn introduction, three dialogues of the empty chatter of ladies and gentlemen.
Condition:
Good Condition. Vellum style spine with grey paper covered boards. Binding is firm. Foxed. Offsetting to title page. Ex libris to inside front cover. Boards are tanned to edges. Darkening to spine with some wear to edges.
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