Jonathan Swift Archive

The Jonathan Swift Archive makes available a searchable, digitized collection of texts of Swift’s prose from a great variety of early editions. The texts collected in the archive are documentary transcriptions of Swift's writings as they appear in their original printed editions. The aim has been to include first editions, and, wherever there has been authorial correction, emendation, revision, or alteration to the text in subsequent lifetime editions, to add transcriptions of these later witnesses. Wherever significant textual issues arise in posthumous editions, their texts have been included as well. The archive provides materials for a comprehensive account of the establishment and textual evolution of Jonathan Swift's prose works.