When was Swift's A Tale of a Tub first published?
A Tale of a Tub
The "Tale" was originally published in 1704 by John Nutt. Swift had used Benjamin Tooke previously when publishing for Sir William Temple. He would use Tooke for both the fifth edition of the "Tale" (1710) and later works. Tooke's successor, Benjamin Motte, published Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". This difference in printer is only one of the things that led to debate over authorship of the work.
Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale
"Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale" is a paper by J. R. R. Tolkien on "The Reeve's Tale", one of the constituent poems of Geoffrey Chaucer's fourteenth century Middle English cycle of poems and stories "The Canterbury Tales". It was originally read at a meeting of the Philological Society in Oxford on Saturday, 16 May 1931, and subsequently published in "Transactions of the Philological Society", Volume 33, Issue 1, November 1934. The delay in publication was explained as "principally due to hesitation in putting forward a study, for which closer investigation of words, and more still a much fuller array of readings from MSS. of the Reeve’s Tale, were so plainly needed." Not having had the opportunity for either, Tolkien "therefore presented [the paper] with apologies, practically as it was read, with the addition of a 'critical text', and accompanying textual notes, as well as of various footnotes, appendices, and comments naturally omitted in reading."