[Drop-head title:] When the Cat's Away The Mice May Play. A Fable, Humbly Inscrib'd to Dr. Sw––t

[Colophon:] London: Printed for A. Baldwin, [1712]. Folio. 4 pp. Unbound and uncut bifolium; creased and toned, edges worn, in cloth folding case, worn and split First edition of this "reply, in defence of Marlborough, to The Fable of the Widow and the Cat … in which Swift had a hand" (Rothschild) which has been variously, and erroneously, attributed to Prior and Swift, as well as Arthur Mainwaring.REFERENCE: Ashley IV, p. 77; ESTC T52367; Foxon W384; Rothschild 1690; Teerink 1299PROVENANCE: Jerome Kern (book-label, his sale 1 January 1929, lot 969) (Inventory #: 100505)