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London: The Folio Society, 2011. Hardcover. Fine. London, The Folio Society, 2011 (first thus). Folio, 283 pages with numerous decorations and 17 tipped-in colour plates plus an original signed etching (with all illustrations by Peter Stuart). Quarter vellum blocked in 22-carat gold and colour-pictorial papered boards with vellum tips; top edge gilt; a fine copy in the fine clamshell box with a title-label mounted on the spine. Number 397 of 1030 copies of this deluxe edition (30 being not for sale), each with an original etching by Peter Stuart, signed and numbered in pencil in the bottom margin by the artist.

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.