An Introduction to: A Letter to the Seven Lords of the Committee, Appointed to Examine Gregg
(Jim McLaverty)
- Abbreviated title
- A letter to the seven lords of the committee, appointed to examine Gregg. [By John Oldmixon?]
- JSA Identification Number
- 6_7_1
- Teerink/Scouten Number
- n/a
- ESTC Number
- T38449
- Copy and its Location
- CUL , Dd*.3.3 (7)
- Publisher and Printer
- A letter to the seven lords of the committee, Appointed to Examine Gregg., Vol. , pp .
- London, Baker, J., 1711.
Commentary
This letter, a defence of the committee that examined Gregg, is not by Swift, but the letter [possibly by John Oldmixon] that he replied to in Some Remarks upon a Pamphlet, Entitl’d , A Letter to the Seven Lords of the Committee, Appointed to Examine Gregg.
Baker was a prominent trade publisher or distributor. He established the firm that was later run by Thomas Warner, and, later still, by Thomas and Mary Cooper.
References: The Prose Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis and others, 16 vols. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1939-74), vol. iii, pp. 245-58, 279; Irvin Ehrenpreis, Swift: The Man, His Works, and the Age, 3 vols. (London: Methuen, 1962-83), vol. ii, pp. 471-3; Michael Treadwell, ‘London Trade Publishers, 1675-1750’, Library, 6th ser. 4 (1982), 99-134.