Books

London: Charles Bathurst, 1749 . Leather. Very Good Indeed. 7" by 4.5". None. E. M. Forster's personal copy of the very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's 'Gulliver's Travels'. The very scarce fifth edition of Jonathan Swift's fantastical novel about the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver in Lilliput, with a wonderful literary association. From the library of Nobel Prize for Literature nominated English novelist E. M. Forster, best known for works including 'A Room with a View', 'Howards End' and 'A Passage to India'. Illustrated with six plates of maps. Collated, complete.With E. M. Forster's bookplate to the head of the front free endpaper, and the armorial bookplate of his aunt, Laura Mary Forster (1839-1924), to the front pastedown. Laura passed much of her library on to her nephew, an intellectual known for her philanthropic activity, and for maintaining correspondences with William Morris and Henriette Darwin, Charles Darwin's eldest daughter.In his biography of his…

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.