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Books about Jonathan Swift:

• Swift (London: Macmillan and Co., 1882), by Leslie Stephen (Gutenberg text)
• Swift (New York: Harper and Bros., 1882), by Leslie Stephen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lives of the Poets: Addison, Savage, Swift, by Samuel Johnson (Gutenberg text)

• Letters Written by Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and Several of His Friends, From the Year 1703 to 1740: Published From the Originals, with Notes Explanatory and Historical (fifth edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Davies et al., 1767), by Jonathan Swift, ed. by John Hawkesworth
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Journal to Stella, by Jonathan Swift, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg text)

• Swift, the Book, and the Irish Financial Revolution: Satire and Sovereignty in Colonial Ireland (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), by Sean D. Moore (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Epic to Novel (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1974), by Thomas E. Maresca (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Memoirs of Mrs. Laetitia Pilkington (3 volumes, published 1748-1754), by Laetitia Pilkington, contrib. by John Carteret Pilkington
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes with modernized spelling: multiple formats with commentary at exclassics.com

• Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life; With Remarks on Stella, and on Some of His Writings Hitherto Unnoticed (second edition, revised and enlarged; Dublin: Hodges and Smith; et al., 1849), by W. R. Wilde, contrib. by Jonathan Swift
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Language and Reality in Swift's A Tale of a Tub (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Frederik N. Smith (PDF at Ohio State)

• Four Essays on Gulliver's Travels (Gloucester, MA: P. Smith, 1958), by Arthur Ellicott Case (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country (reprinted from the (pseudonymous) 1727 edition, with a new introduction; New York: Columbia University Press, 1940), by Samuel Brunt, contrib. by Marjorie Hope Nicolson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Voyage to Cacklogallinia: With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country (London: Printed by J. Watson, 1727), by Samuel Brunt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Contributions Toward a Bibliography of Gulliver's Travels, to Establish the Number and Order of Issue of the Motte Editions of 1726 and 1727, Their Relative Accuracy And the Source of the Changes Made in the Faulkner Edition of 1735 (Chicago: W. M. Hill, 1922), by Lucius L. Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to the Earl of Oxford, about the English Tongue, by Mr. Oldmixon (HTML at Virginia)

• Language and Reality in Swift's A Tale of a Tub (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1979), by Frederik N. Smith (PDF at Ohio State)

Books by Jonathan Swift:

• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: The Battle of the Books (annotated) (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: The Battle of the Books, and Other Short Pieces, ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life; With Remarks on Stella, and on Some of His Writings Hitherto Unnoticed (second edition, revised and enlarged; Dublin: Hodges and Smith; et al., 1849), by W. R. Wilde
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Directions to Servants (as printed in Swift's Complete Works, 1801), ed. by John Nichols (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: The Dreamer (in English with a Latin epistle; includes Swift's poem "Answer"; London: Printed for W. Owen, 1754), by William King (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: Essayists Past and Present: A Selection of English Essays (London: H. Jenkins Ltd., 1925), ed. by J. B. Priestley, also contrib. by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, William Makepeace Thackeray, Alexander Smith, Robert Louis Stevenson, E. V. Lucas, Hilaire Belloc, G. K. Chesterton, and Robert Lynd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Gullivers Resor i Obekanta Länder (in Swedish, illustrated; Stockholm: F. C. Askerberg, ca. 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Gulliver's Travels (multiple editions)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Gulliver's Travels (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, D. D.: The Text of the First Edition Edited, With an Introduction, Bibliography and Notes (London: First Edition Club, 1926), ed. by Harold Herbert Williams (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Gulliver's Travels: I. A voyage to Lilliput. II. A voyage to Brobdingnag; Edited for Schools, With Notes and a Sketch of the Author's Life (Boston: Ginn and Co., 1902) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of The World (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, c1913), contrib. by William Dean Howells, illust. by Louis Rhead (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: The Journal to Stella, ed. by George Atherton Aitken (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: The Lady's Dressing Room (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Letters Written by Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, and Several of His Friends, From the Year 1703 to 1740: Published From the Originals, with Notes Explanatory and Historical (fifth edition, 3 volumes; London: Printed for T. Davies et al., 1767), ed. by John Hawkesworth
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: A Modest Proposal (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: The Novels of Swift, Bage, and Cumberland: viz., Gulliver's Travels, by Swift; Mount Henneth, Barham Downs, James Wallace, by Bage; Henry, by Cumberland; With Prefatory Notices, &c. (London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co.; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1824), ed. by Walter Scott, also contrib. by Richard Cumberland and Robert Bage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: Poems on Several Occasions (London: Printed for C. Rivington, 1735), by Mary Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: Political Pamphlets (London: Percival and Co., 1892), ed. by George Saintsbury, also contrib. by George Savile Halifax, Daniel Defoe, Edmund Burke, Sydney Smith, William Cobbett, and Walter Scott (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, contrib.: Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels (Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne et al., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber, also contrib. by Ludvig Holberg, Robert Paltock, Daniel Defoe, and Edward Gibbon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (second edition; London: Printed for B. Tooke, 1712)
  • multiple formats at Google
  • HTML with commentary at jacklynch.net
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue (HTML at jacklynch.net)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. (12 volumes; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1897-1908), ed. by Temple Scott, Frederick Ryland, and G. Ravenscroft Dennis, contrib. by William Edward Hartpole Lecky, Frederick Richard Falkiner, J. H. Bernard, W. Spencer Jackson, and Constance Jacob
  • Volume I (Tale of a Tub and other early works): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Journal to Stella): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Writings on religion and the church, v1): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV (Writings on religion and the church, v2): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V (Historical and political tracts, English): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI (The Drapier's Letters): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VII (Historical and political tracts, Irish): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VIII (Gulliver's Travels): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IX (Contributions to the Tatler, Examiner, Spectator, and Intelligencer): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume X (Historical writings): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XI (Literary essays): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume XII (Essays on Swift by others, bibliography, and index): multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes (some in reprint editions): page images at HathiTrust; some volumes US access only
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: A Tale of a Tub (HTML with commentary at Lehigh)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: A Tale of a Tub and The History of Martin (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1889), ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver (London: Printed for C. Cooke, ca. 1797) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts (2 volumes: London: Printed for B. Motte, 1726), ed. by Benjamin Motte
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745: Volume III of the Author's Works, Containing Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World (Dublin: G. Faulkner, 1735) (multiple formats at Google)
• Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745, ed.: The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart. (2 volumes; London: Printed for T. Woodward et al., 1750), by William Temple, contrib. by Martha Giffard (page images at HathiTrust)

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