Author: King, William, [FIRST PRINTING OF J. SWIFT'S 'THE ANSWER'].
Title: The Dreamer.
Description: London: printed for W. Owen, at Homer's Head, in Fleet-Street, 1754. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [iv], xxxii, 33-240, xxviii, 14, [ii]pp. With a final advertisement leaf. Page 233 misnumbered 133. Modern quarter calf over marbled boards. New endpapers. ESTC T136704; Rothschild 1302; Teerinck-Scouten 1623. A political and religious satire in a series of allegorical essays, the allusions purportedly explained in a 14 page 'Advertisement, by the bookseller' following the index. Pages 82-89 contain the first appearance in print of Jonathan Swift's poem 'The answer' (Teerink). Very Good.

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