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1726 First Edition
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London: Benj. Motte, 1726. 1st Issue of 1st Ed. . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 148&164pp.; HB blue/red marble w/leather spine-5bands; heavy rub w/edges&corners worn; spine cracked,scuffed,&worn; ft.hinge cracked w/ink info.on pastedwn.; some lt.fox; pgs.w/slight tan,but clean,&tight. Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput. Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag. 1st issue of 1st ed.

About Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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.

Identifying the First Edition of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

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