AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
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Oct 30, 2019
Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. E-12, Bajo B 29688 Estepona (Malaga). SPAIN, Spain
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LOT 308:
SWIFT JONATHAN: (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish Writer and Poet, a refined Satirist and political Pamphleteer. Best ...
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Sold for: €6,000
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SWIFT JONATHAN: (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish Writer and Poet, a refined Satirist and political Pamphleteer. Best remembered for his work Gulliver´s Travels (1726). Swift was also the Dean of St. Patrick´s Cathedral in Dublin. The writing style term Swiftian was created after him. Very rare A.L.S., Jonath Swift, one page, 4to, Deanery-house, Dublin, 20th April 1732, to Lord Lionel Sackville, Lieutenant of Ireland and Duke of Dorset. Swift states `My Lord. I return my most humble acknowledgements to your Grace and my Lady Dutchess [sic] for your great condescension [sic] in inquiring after me at a time when you are so much taken up in crowds and ceremony. I can make no wishes for either of you, but a good voyage without sickness or accidents. For as to honor fortune, favor, and the like, I can only pray for the continuance of them. That I so seldom troubled your Grace, I am sure you will approve, as a matter of conscience in me, not to disturb your house, which in the business of some months left so few for your own leisure and diversions.´ With blank integral leaf. Flattened folds with separations repaired to the verso and to internal page of blank leaf. Minor overall toning due to age wear, otherwise about G £5000-8000
