[LITERATURE] [SWIFT, JONATHAN] a tale of a tub [London], 1711. 12mo. With eight engraved plates. Separate title-pages for A Full and True Account of the Battel...Between the Antient and the Modern Books...and for A Discourse Concerning Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, but with continuous pagination and signatures. With advertisement for "Treaties writ by the same author," at front. Contemporary blind paneled calf. Covers often scuffed, extremities rubbed; scattered light foxing to text, most pronounced at front and back, occasional toning to same, bottom blank margin of leaf M2 torn away. Bound with: [Curll, Edmund] A Complete Key to the Tale of a Tub London, 1714. "The Third Edition." 12mo. [2], 5-310, [2] pp., leaves M2 and N12 blank; (1)-36 pp. Scattered light to moderate spotting; early 19th century ownership signatures in ink on front and rear endpapers and blank recto of advertisment leaf at front, occasional foxing to text, darkening to edges at rear. Ex-library with ink stamp on front paste-down, and call number in pencil on front paste-down and first title-page. Teerink-Scouten 227 and 1004; ESTC N49976 and N49977. PROVENANCE: The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell, Richmond, Virginia. Deaccessioned by The Virginia House Museum to benefit future preservation, acquisitions, and care of collections.