An Introduction to: The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions
(Jim McLaverty)
- Abbreviated title
- The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff's predictions
- JSA Identification Number
- 4_4_1
- Teerink/Scouten Number
- [not in TS, cf. 495]
- ESTC Number
- N29172
- Copy and its Location
- ECCO BL, C.135.g.17
- Publisher and Printer
- The accomplishment of the first of Mr. Bickerstaff’s predictions. Being an account of the death of Mr. Partrige, the almanack-maker; upon the 29th instant. In a letter to a person of honour, Vol. , pp .
- London, , 1708.
Commentary
This Accomplishment is here first printed in a separate quarto pamphlet, without even the name of a distributor attached. Some small verbal changes were made in subsequent reprints in collections. The piece is laid out as a letter to ‘My Lord’ but there is nothing otherwise remarkable about the typography.
References: The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis and others, 16 vols. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1939-74), vol. ii, pp. 151-5, 287; Irvin Ehrenpeis, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age, 3 vols. (London: Methuen, 1962-83), vol. ii, pp. 204-6 , 422-4.