Gulliver's Travels ~ Jonathon Swift ~ 1976, Easton Press ~ Leather, Integral Bookmark, Engravings, Moire Endpapers retailer ~ As New

Gulliver's Travels

An Account of the Four Voyages into Several Remote Nations of the World. Now written down

By Jonathon Swift

Illustrated with Engravings on Wood

By Fritz Eichenberg

The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written

Collector's Edition

Bound in Genuine Leather

1976, The Easton Press
Norwalk, Connecticut

Sewn binding. Rich Golden leather over boards with gilt decoration on front and back and design and lettering on spine. Integral ribbon marker sewn in. Four spine hubs. All edges of leaves gilt. Moiré endpapers. 9.5", 343 pages, publisher's preface, illustrations in black and white, color frontispiece, unattached and unmarked Easton Press bookmark (see last image)

As New. Ribbon bookmark looks to have never been disturbed.

From the Publisher's Preface

Johathon Swift was born in Ireland in 1667 and died in 1745. He wrote "Gulliver's Travels" in the years between 1720 and 1725, so he was already past fifty when he began the book. He was a churchman and a prolific author. Although he had spent a great deal of his time in London, Swift was the Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin at the time of writing "Gulliver's Travels," the work by which he is known to the majority of mankind.

Johathon Swift was not a happy person. "I hate and detest the animal called man," he once said. Swift wrote his own epitaph, in Latin, and in it he said he was now lying "where savage wrath can tear the hart no more."

Although "Gulliver's Travels" has entertained generation after generation, this was not the author's intent. While retailer he was writing it, Dean Swift wrote from Dublin: "The chief end I propose to myself in all my labours is to vex the world rather than divert it." During Swift's own century this end was realized and the savage satire remained uppermost in the reader's mind.

This Easton Press is an adult edition in all respects. It is unabridged and unexpurgated. and rather than following the commonly used text of the first edition, issued in 1726 and only partially corrected by the original publisher, we have followed the rare edition corrected (with Swift's own help) for the author's collected works published in 1735.

BEP