The dreamer

by: King, William, 1685-1763; Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745. Answer

Publication date: 1754

Topics: Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Catholicism in literature

Publisher: London : Printed for W. Owen ...

Collection: gettyalchemy; getty; americana

Digitizing sponsor: Getty Research Institute

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: English

Political and religious satire in the form of allegory

Published anonymously. By William King. See Hogart, NUC, BM

Contains the first appearance in print of Swift's poem The answer. Cf. Teerink, H. Bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift (2nd ed.), no. 1623

Advertisements: [2] p. at end

Includes index

"Advertisement by the bookseller" offering an interpretation of the allegory: 14 p. at end

Errata, p. 14 at end

In Library's copy, Ee1.4 and Ee2.3 bound in reverse order

Library's copy rebound since compilation of Hogart's bibliography. Now in quarter vellum; black leather spine label reading: the Dreamer / 1754. Final leaf with advertisements now wanting

Hogart, R. Alchemy

NUC pre-1956

BM