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Four parts bound in two volumes. [28], v-xii, 148pp; [6], 164pp; [6], 155 [1]p, preliminary ad. leaf; [8], 199, [1]pp, portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved maps, and an engraved plate. 8vo. Tear with loss of text to A3 (contents leaf) vol. II from wax adhesion with verso of Plate III, undamaged though wax visible through plate, some browning & foxing, the first titlepage & frontispiece dusted, old waterstain at head from attempt to remove later 18th century signature. Later e.ps & pastedowns. Contemporary calf, recased, not recently, retaining original backstrips, later morocco labels; corners neatly repaired, some abrasions to boards, inner leading hinges cracked but firm. Signature of Samuel Coote Martin, 1787, on titlepages. Overall a perfectly good copy. ESTC T139025; Teerink 293. The second edition (4th octavo edition) printed May 4th 1727. The first edition to contain the verses which had been separately printed in March 1727. The portrait frontispiece is in 2nd state, first issue.

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, better known as Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirizing both human nature and the 'travellers' tales' literary subgenre.