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Dobree, Bonamy; Hughes, Glenn (Editor) : William Congreve: A Conversation Between Swift and Gay (University of Washington Chapbooks, Number Twenty-six)

University of Washington Book Store, Seattle, WA, 1929

Original publisher's purple wrapper with rare glassine dust wrapper. Issued as part of the University of Washington's "Chapbook Series." 5 1/8" x 7 1/4." Twenty-four pages, complete. Two pages of advertisements for other books in the back, complete. Glassine dust wrapper has an original illustrated sticker closing the top flap on the back of the wrapper. Some pages unopened. Pages and covers of the book are very clean and intact. Dust wrapper is chipped along the edges and is opened along the fore-edge. A Fine book in a Very Good dust wrapper. A semi-biographical conversation between two leading satirists of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England, Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) and John Gay (1685-1732). Swift and Gay talk about another leading satirist, William Congreve (1670-1729), who is known for his clever writing and dialogues that satirized social norms. The conversation follows the comedy of manners style, which Congreve, Swift, and Gay were known for. William Congreve: A Conversation Between Swift and Gay was written by Bonamy Dobree (1891-1974), a British professor who taught English Literature at the University of Leeds from 1936-1955.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Fine. Binding: Soft cover. Jacket: Very Good

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