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London: Printed for Benj. Motte , 1726. Third octavo edition (Teerink's "B" edition). Full calf. Fine. Four parts in two volumes, octavo Vol 1.pp viii [4], 148, [6], 149-310; Vol 2 pp [6], 154 [8], 155-353 [1] (blank)] illustrated with seven engraved plates: Frontispiece portrait of "Captain Lemuel Gulliver" (second state) and six plates numbered I-VI (five maps and one plan]. Bound in modern period-style full calf, gilt spine with red titling labels and raised bands, with the original gilt stamped leather armorial bookplate of J. McCullough Turner and printed bookplate of Italian economist and politiciamFrancesco Paolo Ruggiero neatly mounted on the front pastedowns. Moderate toning and scattered foxing, a few leaves atthe front of vol 2 lightly stained at upper right corner, very good overall. A nicely bound two-volume set of Gulliver's Travels, one of greatest satires ever written. It was an immediate success, which accounts in part for its bibliographical complexity, and…

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.