The Monash Swift Collection: A talk Delivered to Friends of the Monash University Library on November 11, 1968 with a Short-catalogue of Early Editions of Swift and Swiftiana in the Monash University Library.
by Love, H. H. R. ; Swift, Jonathan (about)
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- Paperback
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Annandale, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Melbourne: Monash University, 1969. Paperback trade, very good condition, stapled pamphlet, thin card cover, staples little rusted, minor edgewear, pages faintly toned, bottom corner tip one page creased, minor edgewear corner tips some pages. 40 pp. The Jonathan Swift (English satirist and poet) book collection was acquired in 1961 from a distinguished Australian musician, Mr David Woolley. Mr Woolley was for many years first oboe in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He left in 1967 to follow his career in England. The collection at this time consists of 700 volumes, the majority printed before 1800, of which about a half are editions of works by Swift, and the rest books relating to or indirectly to him, to people closely connected with him, or more generally to his milieu.
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- Bookseller
- Bookhome Sydney (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40712
- Title
- The Monash Swift Collection: A talk Delivered to Friends of the Monash University Library on November 11, 1968 with a Short-catalogue of Early Editions of Swift and Swiftiana in the Monash University Library.
- Author
- Love, H. H. R. ; Swift, Jonathan (about)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Monash University
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- literature, books, collecting, collections, universities, libraries, music, australia, victoria, melbourne, britain
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERATURE;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Annandale, New South Wales
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