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SWIFT, Jonathan. The Lady’s Dressing Room. To which is added, A Poem on cutting down the Old Thorn at Market Hill. By the Rev. Dr. S-T. London: J. Roberts, 1732.
4° (238 x 175mm). (Margins browned.) Modern black morocco, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt.
FIRST EDITION of both poems, printed by William Bowyer whose records show a run of 750 copies. “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” the first of Swift’s directly excremental poems, has been regarded as a burlesque of Belinda’s toilet in the Rape of the Lock. However provocative, it was one of the most popular poems he wrote; many other editions followed, and also replies such as The Gentleman’s Study in Answer to the Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Dean’s Provocation for writing the Lady’s Dressing Room (1734). The mock heroic poem on “Cutting down the Old Thorn,” written 14 September 1728, the product of his friendship with Sir Arthur and Lady Acheson, is also first printed here. UNCOMMON. ESTC locates only 11 copies of this first edition. Foxon S869; Rogers 827 and 782; Rothschild 2132-3; Teerink 720; Williams 524 and 847.
4° (238 x 175mm). (Margins browned.) Modern black morocco, spine lettered longitudinally in gilt.
FIRST EDITION of both poems, printed by William Bowyer whose records show a run of 750 copies. “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” the first of Swift’s directly excremental poems, has been regarded as a burlesque of Belinda’s toilet in the Rape of the Lock. However provocative, it was one of the most popular poems he wrote; many other editions followed, and also replies such as The Gentleman’s Study in Answer to the Lady’s Dressing Room (1732) and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Dean’s Provocation for writing the Lady’s Dressing Room (1734). The mock heroic poem on “Cutting down the Old Thorn,” written 14 September 1728, the product of his friendship with Sir Arthur and Lady Acheson, is also first printed here. UNCOMMON. ESTC locates only 11 copies of this first edition. Foxon S869; Rogers 827 and 782; Rothschild 2132-3; Teerink 720; Williams 524 and 847.