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1927 Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues
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Description
Publishers' Original Binding
This work was originally published under the title 'A Complete Collection of Genteel and ingenious Conversation, according to the most polite mode and method now used at Court, and in the best Companies of England'. It is a satirical commentary of the mundane and banal discourses had by the upper classes of eighteenth century England.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was a satirist, essayist and poet, remembered in particular for 'Gulliver's Travels', 'A Tale of a Tub' and 'A Modest Proposal'. He followed in the satirical tradition of the likes of Horace and Juvenal.
A scarce edition.
Condition
In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding. Externally very smart, with just slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are uncut and bright and clean.
Near Fine
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