A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The "Tale" is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the morals and ethics of the English. Composed between 1694 and 1697, it was eventually published in 1704. It was long regarded as a satire on religion, and has famously been attacked for that, starting with William Wotton.
John Boydell
In addition to these projects and in the middle of his Shakespeare undertaking Boydell experimented with aquatint in "An History of the River Thames", published in 1796. Bruntjen writes, "although not the first colored aquatint book, [it] was the first major one, and it was to set an example for the type of illustration that was to enjoy widespread popularity in England for some forty years". Boydell also published "The Original Work of William Hogarth" in 1790 and "The Poetical Works of John Milton" and "The Life of the Poet" (i.e., Milton) in 1794.