Books

Second edition; 2 vols, 8vo (200 x 130 mm); portrait frontispiece to volume 1 (2nd state, 1st issue), 4 engraved maps, 2 engraved plans, woodcut head and tailpieces, volume 2 lacking preliminary advertisement leaf, first few gatherings (pp 1-23) of volume 2 heavily damp-stained, scattered spotting; 19th-century speckled calf gilt, red morocco title labels, boards bordered in gilt, rubbed, otherwise a good set. Teerink 293.

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.