Gulliver's Travels Limited Edition

Swift, Jonathan

Edité par Folio Society, London, 2012

2012 First Thus. Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine solander box. Illustrated by Peter Suart. Gulliver s Travels is a complex work of adventure, satire, comedy and profound philosophical exploration. For this edition we approached the artist and writer Peter Suart, whose response is at once wickedly comic and engagingly cerebral. Limited to 1,000 copies of which this is number 362. Printed on Cordier Wove paper. Hand-printed etching, signed and numbered by the artist, and tipped onto a special limitation spread. 17 colour plates and borders, numerous tailpieces, endpaper and binding designs all by Peter Suart. Titling calligraphy by Stephen Raw. Set in Founder s Caslon. Gilded top edge. Ribbon marker. Presented in a solander box. 288 pages. Book size: 13" × 9¾". Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts, purports to be the account of a voyage by a surgeon and captain, Lemuel Gulliver. In fact, this biting satire on contemporary society was the work of the Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift (1667 1745). A friend of the poet Alexander Pope and a member of the Scriblerus Club, which lampooned bad literature and scholarship, Swift was acknowledged as the greatest satirist of his age. He was the scourge of corrupt politicians and has been an inspiration for other writers from Voltaire to the present day. Limited to just 1,000 copies, this publication from The Folio Society joins a series of newly illustrated collector s editions of classic works. Peter Suart has created an extraordinary sequence of colour images, as well as numerous tailpieces. Each colour plate is tipped by hand onto a page printed with a golden border. The details of the edition are printed letterpress on the verso of a special limitation spread, and a hand-printed etching, signed and numbered by the artist, is tipped on the recto page. Each book is quarter-bound in vellum with vellum tips, and the spine is hand-blocked in 22-carat gold. The binding design, also by the artist, is blocked in three colours and gold foil. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to USA and Canada £44.40; Airmail to most of the Rest of the World (including the EU), £44.40. If ordering from overseas, please check any additional tax and import duties payable in your country, which will be additional to the costs given here. N° de réf. du vendeur 141797

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Gulliver's Travels Limited Edition
Éditeur : Folio Society, London
Date d'édition : 2012
Reliure : Hardback
Illustrateur : Peter Suart
Etat : Fine
Edition : First Thus.