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Publicado por Benj. Motte, 1726
Librería: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, Reino Unido
Arte / Grabado / Póster Original o primera edición
First edition, first printing (i.e. Teerink A). Frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state, as usual, with vertical chain lines and the lettering around the oval frame. Two volumes (197 x 120mm), bound in contemporary calf with gilt ruled borders and gilt titles to the spine. Binding sometime neatly rebacked with some old repairs to the hinges and corners. Internally clean with occasional browning. An excellent, tall set of this landmark novel in contemporary state. Five engraved maps. The author's masterpiece and landmark in the early development of the novel. The first printing was published on 28 October and sold out within a week and was quickly followed by two further printings in 1726, which are subtly different to the first printing, though bibliographically distinct as shown by Teerink in his bibliography of Swift, and referred to as Teerink AA and B issues. The work was immediately hailed as a classic, "From the highest to the lowest, it is universally read, from the Cabinet-council to the Nursery" - John Gay "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond Temporary Fame" (PMM) Teerink 290; PMM 185.
Publicado por Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple-Gate in Fleet-Street, London, 1726
Librería: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
First edition of Swift's masterpiece with Teerink-Scouten 290 (AA), with title page variant in volume II without the edition statement, but with "Vol. II", author portrait with Latin verses beneath printed on paper with vertical chain lines. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full calf, illustrated with five engraved maps and one engraved table. In near fine condition. Rare and desirable. Jonathan Swift's masterpiece will "last as long as the language, because it describes the vices of man in all nations" (DNB). "A remarkable feat in the creation of imaginary worlds as a vehicle for satire upon the political and religious establishments of the day" (Clute & Grant, 914). "Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame". For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background, 20 have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story" (PMM 185). "Of all Swift's writings it best shows the merits of his mind and his gifts of expression". It is important to realize that it could be written only by one who had the highest ideals for human achievement and who despaired of the achieving" (Baugh et al., 865-66)"although Swift himself expressed this hope for his "Travells" to a friend: "They are admirable Things, and will wonderfully mend the world" (Rothschild 2104).
Publicado por Benj. Motte, London, 1726
Librería: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Issue of 1st Ed. 148&164pp.; HB blue/red marble w/leather spine-5bands; heavy rub w/edges&corners worn; spine cracked,scuffed,&worn; ft.hinge cracked w/ink info.on pastedwn.; some lt.fox; pgs.w/slight tan,but clean,&tight. Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag. 1st issue of 1st ed.
Publicado por Printed for Benj. Motte, London, 1726
Librería: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Full calf. Condición: Fine. Four parts in two volumes, octavo Vol 1.pp viii [4], 148, [6], 149-310; Vol 2 pp [6], 154 [8], 155-353 [1] (blank)] illustrated with seven engraved plates: Frontispiece portrait of "Captain Lemuel Gulliver" (second state) and six plates numbered I-VI (five maps and one plan}. Bound in modern period-style full calf, gilt spine with red titling labels and raised bands, with the original gilt stamped leather armorial bookplate of J. McCullough Turner and printed bookplate of Italian economist and politiciamFrancesco Paolo Ruggiero neatly mounted on the front pastedowns. Moderate toning and scattered foxing, a few leaves atthe front of vol 2 lightly stained at upper right corner, very good overall. A nicely bound two-volume set of Gulliver's Travels, one of greatest satires ever written. It was an immediate success, which accounts in part for its bibliographical complexity, and has been hailed as a book that "would last as long as the language, because it described the vices of man in all nations"(DNB) The scarce third issue published in December 1726 with continuous pagination in each volume (the first three octavo editions were published from October to December 1726) Teerink 290. Printing andthe Mind of Man 185 Third octavo edition (Teerink's "B" edition).
Publicado por London: for Benj. Motte, 1726 & 1727, 1727
Librería: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Reino Unido
Third edition, Teerink's B edition, published only a couple of months after the first, together with the spurious third volume published the following year. This is a remarkably attractive set, uniformly bound in a well-preserved unrestored contemporary English binding. The first edition was published on 28 October 1726. Two superficially similar but distinct octavo editions followed in quick succession: the second (designated AA by Teerink) sometime in the middle of November, and the third edition (Teerink B) in December. A third volume, in two parts, appeared later in 1727; the first part is an original imitation of Swift's work, the second is an adaptation of Siden's The History of the Sevarites or Sevarambi (London, 1675-9). Gulliver's Travels "is the book by which Swift is chiefly remembered, and it is the record of his own experience in politics under Queen Anne as an Irishman in what G. B. Shaw called 'John Bull's other island'" (ODNB). The printing was chiefly managed by Alexander Pope, Swift's long-time friend. About a year before the first publication, discussing with Pope the progress he had made in "finishing, correcting, amending, and transcribing my Travels", Swift famously confessed: "the chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it" (Swift, p. 434). The portrait occurs in three states, the first with the inscription "Captain Lemuel Gulliver, of Redriff Aetat. Suae 58." on a tablet under the oval (Gulliver's age matches Swift's age when the Travels was first published.) The second state, as here, has the inscription placed round the oval, the tablet with a quotation from the second satire of Persius, protesting the author's purity of heart; the third state is a retouched version of the second. Provenance: from the library of the Ricasoli-Firidolfi family, one of the earliest and most prominent noble families of Florence, with their 19th-century armorial bookplate in each volume and their numbered shelf labels to spines. ESTC T139452 and T139029; Printing and the Mind of Man 185 (first. ed.); Teerink 291 and 292. Jonathan Swift, Correspondence, 1999. 3 volumes, octavo (196 x 123 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, spines with raised bands, red morocco labels, board edges tooled in gilt, edges sprinkled red and brown. Housed in a brown cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 similar maps, and 1 diagram. Extremities rubbed, spine ends and corners worn, joints of vols. I and II cracked but holding, joints of vol. III with short splits at head and foot, but firm, contents browned, occasional foxing, otherwise clean. A very good set.
Publicado por Wells Gardner, Darton and Co. Ltd., 3 Paternoster Buildings, E.C.4. [1929], London, 1929
Librería: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, Reino Unido
4to. 6.25 x 8.25 inches. [ii] + vii-xx + 346 pp. + [18] pp. publisher's catalogue. Probably lacks half title. Bound in pictorial green cloth, gilt. Some wear to extremities and traces of foxing, but otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by plates, numbered in text, including frontispiece, by text figures, and by five plates, including four maps and two portraits (on one page) from the first edition. An illustrated edition of Gulliver's Travels, edited by Frederick Joseph Harvey Darton (1878-1936) publisher of children's literature and author of books on topography and of the standard work, Children's Books in England (1932). Illustrated by René Bull (1872-1942), Dublin born illustrator an photographer, settled in England. With facsimile title page, frontispiece and maps from the first edition of 1926. ART / LITERATURE NOVELS LIT. FICTION 18TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE.