MARC Record from Western Washington University

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040 $aLibrary Resources, inc.$cIUL$dLEL
049 $aXFFA
090 $aPR1101$b.L5 LEL 12133
100 1 $aSwift, Jonathan,$d1667-1745.
245 12 $aA tale of a tub$h[microform] :$bWritten for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, an account of a battel between the antient and modern books in St. James's library /$cJonathon Swift.
246 3 $aBattle of the books$hmicroform.
246 3 $aMechanical operation of the spirit$hmicroform.
250 $aThe fifth edition: with the author's apology and explanatory notes.$bBy W. W--tt--n, B.D. and others.
260 $aLondon :$bPrinted for John Nutt,$c1710.
300 $a[32], 344 p. :$bplates ;$c21 cm.
500 $aPages 197 and 233 misnumbered "297" and "133" respectively.
500 $aDouble line borders on title and special title pages.
500 $a"A full and true account of the battel fought last Friday, between the antient and the modern books in St. James's library" and "A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit. In a letter to a friend. A fragment" each has special title page.
500 $a"The epistle dedicatory, to His Royal Highness Prince Posterity": p. [1]-12.
500 $a"Contains the Apology, the footnotes, and 8 plates for the first time. The unsigned footnotes are by Swift."--Cambridge bibliography of English literature.
500 $aWritten following the censure by W. Wotton and R. Bentley of W. Temple's "Ancient and modern learning," a theme then being debated in Paris by Fontenelle and others, in England by Bentley and C. Boyle. cf. Oxford companion to English literature; Dictionary of national biography.
500 $a"The authorship, never seriously doubted, was assumed by Swift in a letter to his publisher Tooke (29 June 1710) ... Curll, in a 'Key', had insinuated that Thomas Swift, Jonathan's cousin, who had been chaplain at Moor Park, was the chief author. Wotton, in his 'Defence' of his 'Reflections,' also calls Thomas the editor. Swift, in writing to ... Tooke, makes some contemptuous references to his 'little parson cousin,' whom he guesses to have been an accomplice in this."--Dictionary of national biography.
533 $aMicrofiche.$bChicago, Ill. :$cLibrary Resources, inc.,$d1976.$e1 sheet of microfiche : positive ; 8 x 13 cm.$f(Library of English literature ; LEL 12133)
539 $as$b1976$dilu$en
830 0 $aLibrary of English literature ;$vLEL 12133.
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910 $aMAJOR MICROFORMS