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the New York Publishing Co. , Unknown. Hardcover. Good. Good hardcover. No DJ. "Empire Edition". Looks to be Pre 1900. 333 pages. Pages are unmarked, though tanned and with some minor foxing/soiling marks. Previous owner's inscription on end paper. Covers show edge wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

London: London: Macmillan 1980 Facsimile Edition cr.8vo xxxii,381,3pp ill., 1980 Fine original cloth, in fine protected DW. A facsimile copy of the 1894 Macmillan edition.

New York: John Wurtele Lovell, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good+/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 333&133pgs.; HB purple w/blk.&gilt-pic./design cover; rubbed w/wear&sun on edges&corners; spine sunned; cocked; PON; bookplate; bk.hinge cracked; frontis&title w/foxing; frontis&velum detached. some illus.

1894 London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. First Edition thus. Duodecimo (7-3/8" tall). Bound in dark green cloth with illustrations and titles in gilt, all edges also gilt with black eps. The FC was bent and has verticle wrinkles, moderate spine lean. Moderate water staining on the lower edges of pages (does not intrude upon the text.) Quite scarce.

Very Rare 1751 Fifth Edition of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift -Needs Some Restoration
"Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts by Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, Then a Captain of Several Ships"
The Fifth Edition, CorrectedLondon:Printed for Charles Bathurst, and Sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R. Dodsley and W. Bowles.MDCCLI (1751)
About the Book:
Full Calf. Condition: Fair and needs some restoration but not that bad. This is the very rare 5th Edition, Corrected, viii, 296 pp., 6 copper plates. Spine and end page are loose. Note about this being a gift written on the inside back cover. Two different owners' book plates on inside front cover and first end page. The blank front end papers are browned at the edge an the second end paper has a small torn piece. Title page printed in red and black and that and all the rest of the pages look pretty clean with very minor foxing.
Interesting background on this book on the web:
Jonathan Swift initially did his best to… Read More

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2011. Deluxe Limited Edition. Leather. Near Fine/Near Fine Slipcase. Grandville. Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition, hand-numbered 189 of 500. With the Grandville illustrations from the classic 1840 edition. Title page reads, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a surgeon, and then a captain of several ships. Illustrated with upwards of four hundred wood-engravings from designs by Grandville. With copious notes, a life of the author, and an essay on satirical fiction by W. C. Taylor, LL.D." Springhill Opaque paper in the warm white shade and eggshell texture of the original edition. Marbled endapers froma pattern created exclusively for this edition by Peggy Skycraft. Full leather binding. Cowhide leather imported from Italy. Lithography by Falcon Press of Tennessee. Custom multicolor binding and slipcase by BindTech, of Nashville. Unmarked and clean. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Exterior looks new,… Read More

London: Benjamin Motte, 1731. Second issue of the 1727 third edition of GULLIVER'S TRAVELS with 1731 cancel title pages and divisional title pages [Teerink 295]. Includes the four maps, two plans and the four illustrations as in the 1727 issue as well as 12 pages of Verses (Teerink calls alternately for none, 20 or 24 pp). No frontis portrait present (not called for but sometimes found in this issue). THIS COPY ANNOTATED WITH EXTENSIVE CONTEMPORARY COMMENTARY, EMENDATIONS AND AMENDATIONS TO THE TEXT SOMETIMES EXTENDING TO SEPARATE LEAVES WHICH HAVE BEEN BOUND IN (or interleaved). Partial name at head of first volume title page -- "Ch. Wren" -- is the only clue to the identity of the annotator whose notes herein range from his own thoughts on the text ("CW") to those of John Boyle ("Lord Orrery") a writer and friend of Swift's who published REMARKS ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF JONATHAN SWIFT (1751); John Hawkesworth ("Hawks") who edited and published an edition of Swift's works (1754-1755); and Swift… Read More

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.