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London: Macmillan and Co, 1894. First Edition Thus. Attractive edition of Swift's satirical masterpiece, the first to be illustrated by English painter and line-artist Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938). Part of the wildly popular Cranford Series, published by Macmillan from 1876 (Old Christmas) to 1907 (Silas Marner). Scarce in dustjacket. Not in Teerink; cf.PMM 185; Barron, Fantasy Literature: A Reader's Guide, 1-81. Crown octavo (18.5cm); hunter green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dark green endpapers; all edges gilt; publisher's original illustrated dustjacket; xxxii,382 + [2]pp publisher's ads. Unsigned publisher's binding by Charles E. Brock, who supplies a frontispiece and 99 illustrations throughout the text, including full-page illustrations, maps, vignettes, head and tailpieces. Spine ends gently nudged, faint crazing to rear board, with some light, scattered foxing to margins and text edges; hinges sound; Very Good+. In…

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.

First editions can be identified by the correct publisher and the presence of certain textual errors that were corrected in later editions.