[Rarebooks] FS: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, 1726, in Handsome Binding

[Charles Agvent]

SWIFT, Jonathan. TRAVELS INTO SEVERAL REMOTE NATIONS OF THE WORLD. IN 
FOUR PARTS. BY LEMUEL GULLIVER, FIRST A SURGEON, AND THEN A CAPTAIN OF 
SEVERAL SHIPS [GULLIVER'S TRAVELS]. London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. First 
Edition. Four parts in two octavo (4-3/4" x 7-3/4") volumes bound in 
full crushed crimson morocco leather by Root & Son; gilt rules on 
covers; gilt-decorated and lettered spines with five raised bands; gilt 
dentelles and marbled endpapers; all edges gilt; viii, [4], 148, [6], 
164; [vi], 155, [ix], 199, [1] pages. Housed in a red slipcase. 
Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the 
second state, as usual, with Latin verses beneath, lettering around the 
oval frame, and printed on paper with vertical chain lines, as well as 5 
maps and a plate of symbols. Title page variant in volume II without the 
edition statement but with "Vol. II." Apparently a mixture of Teerink's 
A and B editions. DNB: Jonathan Swift's masterpiece will "last as long 
as the language, because it describes the vices of man in all nations"; 
GROLIER 100 English, 42; PRINTING & THE MIND OF MAN 185; ROTHSCHILD 
2104; TEERINK-SCOUTEN 289. Armorial bookplate of Etta Mary Arnold Clark 
on the front pastedowns of both volumes. Handsomely bound in Fine condition.

"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that 
nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison." (#020755)    
     $8,500

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