Auction Date:2010 Mar 10 @ 08:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Signed book: A Commentary Upon the Whole Booke of Judges. Preached First and Delivered in Sundrie Lectures. London: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1615. Contemporary replacement hardcover, 7.25 x 11, 970 pages. Signed in ink on the title page, “Liber Johannis Swift non est mortale quod opto [translated: what I desire is not mortal] 1698.” Book also bears a presentation Inscription on the second free end page, preceding the title page, “S.R. Mason. Presented by Dr. A.C. Webber January 1856. Cambridge, Mass.” Housed in a custom-clamshell case and slip case, and in very good condition, with moderate scattered toning and foxing to signed page, as well as inside pages, small chip to signed page, as well as a few ink notations; the covers show heavy wear and rubbing.
For his part, the famed Puritan writer was both a historian who recorded the trials and tribulations of the 17th century, and a type of soothsayer who looked forward to comment on the problems that plague the 20th century. His various works, including Gulliver’s Travels, satirized Puritanism, but his works also focused on the centuries old problem of alienation. An ordained Anglican priest, Swift was known to fervently defend the Church of Ireland, while his works would later attack not only Puritans any religion he felt was in decline or led by men participating in “evil” practices. To think—this copy of A Commentary Upon the Whole Booke of Judges was once part of Swift’s personal library and thus likely used as inspiration, or perhaps as a target of satire, by one the greatest writers of the Enlightenment Movement. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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