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A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents, or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick : Dublin / Printed by S. Harding, 1729.

Title
A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents, or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick : Dublin / Printed by S. Harding, 1729.
Author
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : Houghton Library, 1979.

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  • Meriden Gravure Company.
  • Stinehour Press.
Description
16 p.; 19 cm.
Summary
A Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. This satirical hyperbole mocks heartless attitudes towards the poor, as well as Irish policy in general
Alternative Title
Swift's Modest proposal
Subject
  • Ireland > Politics and government > Humor
  • Political satire, English
  • Religious satire, English
Note
  • "As a keepsake for the class of 1929, and for its friends ... the Houghton Library has prepared this facsimile of the first edition of Jonathan Swift's A modest proposal, given by Mr. Houghton in 1976."
  • "250 copies in plain wrappers for the Harvard Class of 1929, 400 copies in printed wrappers for the Friends of the Harvard College Library, 350 copies in printed wrappers for sale." L. C. copy in plain wrappers.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
LCCN
^^^79322460^//r83
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library