The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift. Dean of St Partick’s, Dublin. Dublin: Luke White, 1785. First Dublin Edition. Pp xx, 488, [2]. Full claf, title label to second compartment. A nice bright copy.

Contains an appendix titled “Anecdotes of the Family of Swift,” which is a fragment written by Swift himself. A final advertisement leaf is present at the end, as is standard for this edition.

The first Dublin edition of Thomas Sheridan’s biography of Jonathan Swift, printed in 1785. It is a distinct edition from the first London printing, which appeared a year earlier in 1784.