Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World - Deluxe limited first edition

Jonathan Swift: Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Edité par J M Dent & Co, London: E P Dutton & Co, New York, 1909

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Number 362 of 750 copies printed of this large paper edition, signed on the limitation page by the illustrator. 4to, 295 x 215 mm, 11½ x 8½ inches, white buckram, gilt lettered and decorated on upper cover and spine, gilt illustrated marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut, red silk ties, 291 pages. 13 splendid mounted colour plates with printed captions, 34 black and white illustrations including two full-page. All complete including the single tissue guard to the frontispiece. Spine slightly darkened, silk ties a bit faded, neat owner's name in the "This book belongs to" box on the endpaper, foxing to tissue guard to frontispiece. There are also occasional small fox marks to the deckle edges of a few of the pages, not on the pages themselves (see images) - otherwise the pages are very clean and fresh. There is an extra coloured plate in this edition not in the trade edition, it is the last plate in the book page 256, 'The Yahoos' as stated on the publisher's tipped-in printed Notice which is still present.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World - Deluxe limited first edition
• Éditeur: J M Dent & Co, London: E P Dutton & Co, New York
• Date de parution: 1909
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Arthur Rackham
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
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