Description

• Two volumes bound as one
• Miniature Edition [Jones & Company, London, 1827]; 9 x 5.5cm; blank leaf, 12 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1826], xxviii, 200, [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1826], viii, 210, [2 blank] pages
• Green silk-woven boards, spine ends bumped, edges rubbed, silk unravelling from base of spine, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
• Part of the Jones’ Diamond Classics series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
• Includes Sketch of the Life of Swift