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A Modest Proposal / Mary Ellen Carroll
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FA.SB4.5075
75 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
1994
Hardcover. Case binding. Offset printed.
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition A Modest Proposal/A Modist Prepozel Jonathan Swift and Mary Ellen Carroll, in the Artist Book Series of the State University of New York at Binghamton." - colophon
"A reissue of Swift’s essay, which proposed an absurd means of ending famine in Ireland, follows a translation of the essay into phonetic spelling and an essay by Swiftian scholar Frank Boyle. This book comes out of a work in which wool army blankets were meticulously embroidered with the essay." - Printed Matter
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition A Modest Proposal/A Modist Prepozel Jonathan Swift and Mary Ellen Carroll, in the Artist Book Series of the State University of New York at Binghamton." - colophon
"A reissue of Swift’s essay, which proposed an absurd means of ending famine in Ireland, follows a translation of the essay into phonetic spelling and an essay by Swiftian scholar Frank Boyle. This book comes out of a work in which wool army blankets were meticulously embroidered with the essay." - Printed Matter