IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 165554 accession number: PB 26-2007 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: [32], 344 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. object type: The fifth edition: with the author’s apology and explanatory notes. By W. W--tt--n, B.D. and others.. Reference: Teerink-Scouten 222 Both the Battle of the books and the Mechanical operation of the spirit have separate title-pages but continous pagination and signatures With advertisements on t.p. verso With 7 plates: frontispiece, plates facing pp. 35, 56, 121, 138, 192, 233 (misnumbered 133), 243. Edition seems to lack one plate. Plate used for frontispiece is labelled "pag 35" and no plate is found facing p.35 as with other editions. A2 is missigned A3 and A4 is missigned a2 Contains also Swift’s A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit. In a letter to a friend. A fragment. London, 1710 Inscription on fly-leaf: Sydney C. Cockerell Sept 23 1905". References: ESTC, T49835 title: PB 26-2007 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/165554 PEOPLE ------------------- Cockerell, Sydney C. TECHNIQUES ---------- printing CATEGORIES ------ category: book DATING ------ creation date: 1710 - 1710 creation date earliest: 1710 creation date latest: 1710 CREATORS -------- maker: Swift, Jonathan maker: Wotton, William maker: Nutt, John