[SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]

Lot 154
10.07.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 22 680
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Lot 154 | [SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]
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£ 20 000 – 30 000
[SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World... by Captain Lemuel Gulliver. London: Benj. Motte, 1726.
A crisp first edition of 'Gulliver's Travels' in a contemporary binding: Teerink's 'A' edition. Swift's ahead-of-its-time utopian romp succeeds on many levels: as a Scriblerian satire, a burlesque travelogue, a moral fable, an anti-novel, an adventure in science fiction, a uniquely loved children's book, and also a personal psychodrama. The novel left a lasting cultural impact, introducing terms like 'Lilliputian' into common language and being adapted into various media. Teerink 289.

2 volumes, octavo (195 x 117mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in the second state with vertical chain lines, 6 engraved plates (some faint staining in vol. I, a few minor marginal marks). Contemporary speckled calf, double gilt-ruled borders (expertly rebacked to style). Provenance: F Stapleton (contemporary ink ownership inscription on pastedown of vol. 2 crossed out and replaced by:) – E. Stapleton (contemporary ink ownership inscriptions with note on contents leaf in vol. 1 'E. Stapleton her book / Mamy gave me this book' in a juvenile hand') – notepaper pasted into vol. 1 noting a valuation in 1930 and binding restoration in 1935 – Hawarden Castle (small library labels).
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