An Introduction to: <hi rend="italic">The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions</hi>

An Introduction to: <hi rend="italic">The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff’s Predictions</hi> Jim McLaverty Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London

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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.