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Title: Broadsides by Jonathan Swift and others
Dates (inclusive): approximately 1710s-1734
Bulk dates: 1724-1733
Collection Number: 143198-143259
Extent:
1 volume
Repository:
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.
Rare Books Department
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
Phone: (626) 405-2191
Email: reference@huntington.org
URL: http://www.huntington.org
Abstract: A bound volume containing 79 manuscript and printed broadsides chiefly from the 1720s and 1730s with satirical, humorous,
and political ballads, poems, and prose by various
Anglo-Irish writers, dramatists, and clerics including Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Some of the unattributed manuscript poems
and annotations are
purported to be by Swift.
Language: English.
The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material,
nor does it charge fees for such activities.
The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining necessary permissions rests with the
researcher.
[Identification of item]. Broadsides by Jonathan Swift and others, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Purchased from Frederick R. Halsey by Henry E. Huntington through George D. Smith, December 1915.
Custodial History
William Robert Wilde's
The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life (1849) references "a rare collection … recently presented
to us by our friend George Smith, Esq.," which is described as "a large volume of these ballads, and also of broadsides, both
in prose and verse,
noted in many places in the handwriting of Swift, and bearing evident marks of having been in his possession. In this volume
we also find several
unpublished poems, in manuscript, revised and noted in the handwriting of Swift. The whole collection consists of eighty pieces,
extending from 1710 to 1734" (page 165).
The volume was put up for sale in 1890 by Robson & Kerslake and includes an 1895 bookplate of Swiftian collector Colonel Francis
Richard Charles Grant (1834-1899). The
volume was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge on May 9, 1900, as part of the sale of Grant's library. The Huntington Library
copy of the sales catalog has a
penciled note in the margin of Lot No. 35, "47 ₤ Sabin." Pasted onto the volume's back inside cover are pages from two sales
catalogs describing
the volume: one from the May 9, 1900, sale, and a second one identified with a pencil note, "331 Aug. 13 1900." The volume
was purchased by
Henry E. Huntington as part of the sale of the library of Frederick R. Halsey in December 1915.
Processing/Project Information
The printed materials in the volume previously received individual catalog records in the Huntington Online Catalog.
The collection is open to qualified researchers by prior application through the Reader Services Department. For more information,
please visit the Huntington's website:
www.huntington.org.
This bound volume contains 79 manuscript and printed broadsides chiefly from the 1720s and 1730s with satirical, humorous,
and political ballads, poems, and prose by various
Anglo-Irish writers, dramatists, and clerics including Jonathan Swift (1667-1745). Some of the unattributed manuscript poems
and annotations are
purported to be by Swift. The volume includes
sixteen handwritten items and sixty-three printed texts. The printed items were primarily printed in Dublin, Ireland, with
six printed by Dublin printers John Harding and Sarah Harding.
The items are numbered and separated into two parts, each preceded by a contemporary handwritten table of contents. The volume
has previously been
referred to in print as the
Dublin Broadsides. It is bound in a leather binding with the spine title "Broadsides by Swift and others : ms. and printed."
Related materials in the Huntington Library
- Jonathan Swift Collection (mssHM 1599, mssHM 14326-14390, etc.)
- Polite Conversation. Dramatic dialogues. From Jonathan Swift, 1740 (mssLA 21) in the John Larpent Papers.
The items appear to be bound in the volume in general chronological order.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
Huntington Library's Online Catalog.
Epitaphs -- Ireland -- 18th century.
Broadside poems -- Ireland -- 18th century.
Poems -- Ireland -- 18th century.
Songs -- Ireland -- 18th century.
Barber, Mary, approximately 1685-1755.
Belcher, James.
Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743.
Delany, Patrick, 1685 or 1686-1768.
Grant, Francis, 1834-1899, former owner.
Halsey, Frederic R. (Frederic Robert), 1847-1918, former owner.
Harding, John, -1725, printer.
Harding, Sarah, active 1721-1729.
King, William, 1685-1763.
Mountcashell, Edward Davys, Viscount, 1711-1736.
Owens, Samuel.
Philips, Ambrose, 1674-1749.
Sheridan, Thomas, 1687-1738.
Smedley, Jonathan, 1671-1729.
Stretzer, Thomas, -1738.
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
Tickell, Thomas, 1685-1740.
Ware, Henry, A.M.