A Tale of a Tub
Robert Hendrickson notes in his book "British Literary Anecdotes" that "Swift was always partial to his strikingly original "The Tale of a Tub" (1704). On reading the work again in later years, he exclaimed 'Good God! What a genius I had when I wrote that book!'"
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.