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London: N/A, 1727. Leather. Very Good. 8" by 5". Not Stated. A scarce copy of the famous pretended third volume to Gulliver's travels. Two parts, bound as one. Collated: Complete, with frontispiece and half title, and decorative head and tail pieces. Printed the year after the first edition, this volume is one of the best known spurious editions of the extended adventures of Gulliver. Purporting to be a third volume of Gulliver's travels, the work appeared in 1727, unattributed to a publisher. The volume has two parts, 'A Second Voyage to Brobdingnag' and 'A Voyage to Sevarambia' and was ultimately a poor imitation of Swift's original work, borrowing heavily from a French work 'L'Histoire des Severambes.' In his Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott referred to this work as 'the most impudent combination of piracy and forgery that ever occurred in the literary world' and 'a mere bookseller's catch-penny' of 'little genius'. Regardless of Scott's poor opinion,…

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.