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Some unpublished marginalia of Jonathan Swift

Printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press Cambridge 1945 8pp.

Nathaniel Mayer (Victor) Rothschild

Notes

A selection from the marginal glosses Swift penned in his copy of The Life of Henry VIII by Lord Herbert of Cherbury. Chosen to illustrate Swift's profound aversion to the monarch and his rejection of Herbert's interpretation.

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