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edited by Nicolaas Heinsius, Jonathan Swift's copy with his two ink signatures at head of title and fly-leaf (with date and price paid), presentation copy from Swift to the Rev. Dan Jackson (with Jackson's ink inscription), further presentation inscription from Jackson to Henry Grattan, engraved title, very slight staining to tail of title and all to D3 not affecting engraving or text, slightly browned, "Claud" in ink on the fore-edge, engraved bookplate of Dan Jackson with his ink signature on f. opposite title, later Cecil Harmsworth's copy with his ink signature and dated 1927on fly-leaf, front free endpaper partially cut away, small piece cut from the f. of a larger title-page loosely inserted, hinges split, contemporary panelled calf, edges rubbed, corners worn, upper joint split, spine extensively rubbed, chipped at head and tail with slight loss to tail, [Willem 1102], 12mo, Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevier, 1650.

***A presentation copy from Swift to the Rev. Dan Jackson. Inscription by Swift reads: "Jon: Swift 1699 Pr. 1s." Ink inscription by Jackson reads: "D. Jackson ex dono" [and then Swift's signature] John: Swift." 1699. "Sir William Temple died on 27 January 1699, 'and with him all that was great and good among men', Swift remarked (Ehrenpreis, 1.257), leaving him a legacy of £100 and the obligation to prepare several unpublished works for the press. Swift petitioned the king through Temple's friend the earl of Romney for a prebend of Canterbury or Westminster... nothing came of this and he returned to Ireland in August 1699, having accepted in June the invitation of the second earl of Berkeley, the new lord justice, to become his domestic chaplain and secretary. Swift lost the secretarial position to the opportunist manoeuvrings of Arthur Bushe soon after arriving in Dublin, but remained Berkeley's chaplain for almost two years, as well as gaining a lifelong friendship with Berkeley's second daughter, Lady Elizabeth Germain. On 30 November 1699 the first two volumes of his edition of Temple's letters were on sale, and these included his own translations from the French and Latin originals." (Oxford DNB) A few months later Swift was appointed to the Vicarages of Laracor and Rathbeggan and the rectory of Agher. "On Dan Jackson's Picture Cut in Paper. In 1718, probably in late October or early November, Swift, Delany, Sheridan and the young clergyman, Dan Jackson, were staying at Gaulstown House, the country seat of the prominent Rochfort family, near Duleek in County Meath. Lady Betty Rochfort cut out Dan Jackson's profile in silk, and apparently it was quite recognizable, as he had a large nose. Delaney, Sheridan, and Lady Betty's husband George all wrote gibing poems about the profile, and there then ensued verse warfare on the matter in which the principal combatants were Swift and Sheridan, and which finally resulted in at least eighteen poems." - Robert Hogan & Donald C. Mell, editors. The Poems of Patrick Delany. Note by Cecil Harmsworth loosely inserted: "This little book (the Poems of Claudian) was given by Dean Swift to Dan Jackson who gave it to Henry Grattan when the latter was a boy. CH.".

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