Books

Signed limited edition, number 695 of 750 copies signed by the artist. Rackham first illustrated Swift's satire in 1900 (published with a colour frontispiece and 11 black and white drawings). Rackham reworked the drawings for a new edition in 1909, adding colour. The signed limited edition includes an additional colour plate, "The Lilliputian tailors measure Gulliver for a new suit of clothes", not in the trade edition. Quarto. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and centre tool to spine gilt, raised bands, pictorial onlay to front board (of Gulliver being released from the strings) copied from frontispiece, cornerpieces and single rule to boards gilt, decoration to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Colour frontispiece and 12 colour plates mounted on white paper, with tissue guards, black and white illustrations in text, all by Arthur Rackham. A fine copy.

Gulliver's Travels, a classic tale by Jonathan Swift, encompasses the fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver to various strange lands. Through satirical and adventurous narratives, Swift critiques contemporary society and human nature.