Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Descripción

Signed limited edition, number 695 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Rackham first illustrated Swift's satire in 1900 (published with a colour frontispiece and 11 black and white drawings). Rackham reworked the drawings for a new edition in 1909, adding colour. The signed limited edition includes an additional colour plate, "The Lilliputian tailors measure Gulliver for a new suit of clothes", not in the trade edition. Quarto (280 x 210). Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on white paper, with tissue guards, black and white illustrations in text, all by Arthur Rackham. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, pictorial onlay to front board (of Gulliver being released from the strings) copied from frontispiece, cornerpieces and single rule to boards gilt, decoration to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy.

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Título

Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

Editor

London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909