Item 434Le Grand Mistere, Ou l'Art de Mediter sur la Garderobe, Renouvellé et Devoilé par l'Ingenieux Docteur Swift [pages 1-40, with selections from L'Art de Ramper en Poesie and L'Art du Mensonge Politique]
Translation of a scatological work attributed, likely falsely, to Jonathan Swift. In a binding which is evidently contemporary, this is in fact a curious composite volume; everything after page 40 (sig. C4) is from a volume of Swift & Pope's Miscellanies, viz. chapters 9-16 of L'Art de Ramper en Poesie (pp. 170-244), and the complete L'Art du Mensonge Politique (pp. 245-280), with an 8-page catalog at the end. It seems clear that this is the form in which the volume was originally assembled and sold. The first work was translated into French by the Abbé P.-F. Guyot Desfontaines, and the.....