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[SWIFT(Jonathan, oft ascribed to] PUFF-INDORST (Fartinando), pseudor, The benefit of farting explain

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[SWIFT(Jonathan, oft ascribed to] PUFF-INDORST (Fartinando), pseudor, The benefit of farting explain

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
[SWIFT(Jonathan, oft ascribed to] PUFF-INDORST (Fartinando), pseudor, The benefit of farting explain'd : the fundament-all cause of the distempers incident to the fair-sex, enquired into. Proving à Posteriori most of the Dis-ordures in-tail'd upon them, are owing to Flatulencies not seasonably vented. Wrote in Spanish by Don Fartinando Puff-indorst Professor of Bumbast in the University of Crackow. And Translated into English at the Request, and for the Use, of the Lady Damp-fart of Her-fart-shire. By Obadiah Fizzle, Groom of the Stool to the Princess Arsimini in Sardinia. Long-fart: [ Longford, Ireland i.e. London] 1722.Pages (6), 15, (3, blank), 12mo, sewn in recent marbled wrappers : a very good-nice copy."Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift but attributed by him ('Correspondence' 2:121) to "one Dobbs a surgeon". Found sometimes bound with "Miscellanies", London 1722. The imprint is facetious; probably printed in London." There are a number of 1722 4to editions of this work from the Ist through the 4th, 6th, 7th, 12th, 13th ; all very rare. There are also two other smaller format editions. As stated in ESTC this 12mo edition is sometimes found bound with the 4th edition of Swift's Miscellanies, 1722, with another "doubtful" piece "The wonderful wonder of wonders. "Some copies contain ... two pieces that do not belong to this volume, namely : The benefit of farting and The wonderful wonder of wonders". (Teerink-Scouten 19 note). Of the copies of Miscellanies, 1722 cited in ESTC only the BL copy has both of these "intrusive pieces" ; TxSaC is recorded as (+'Wonderful wonder of wonders'). None of the other copies located mention the presence of either of them. Both though, were included as part of the text of the Fifth edition of Miscellanies 1736 - which no doubt helped explain the attribution of them to Swift. The short text continues in the punning vein perhaps already sufficiently indulged on the title page and concludes with a poem (p. 13-15) "We've often heard, how the imprisoned Wind ..."