Travels into several remote nations of the world. In four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver [i.e. Jonathan Swift], first surgeon, & then Captain of several ships

Jonathan Swift

RA Collection: Book

Record number

14/146

Author

Variant Title

Gulliver's travels

Imprint

Waltham St Lawrence, Berkshire: Printed at The Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXV

Physical Description

141 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 26 cm.

General Note

This edition of Gulliver's travels was printed by Robert Giddings at Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire, and completed on the 7 day of November, 1925. The text is taken from the Bohn edition, the illustrations are designed and engraved on wood by David Jones. Compositors: F. Young and A.H. Gibbs. Pressman: A.C. Cooper. CCCCLXXX [480] copies have been printed, of which nos. 1 to 30 are on hand-made paper. [From: colophon, vol. 2. (p.[141]).]
With 40 wood-engravings by David Jones, several hand-coloured.

Copy Note

Copy No. 339 of an edition of 480.

Binding Note

Original cream, half-buckram boards. Spine lettered in gold: "Gulliver's Travels - Vo. I. [Vol. II]."

Subject

Illustrated books
Satire
Hand coloured wood engravings

Contributors

David Jones, illustrator
Robert Gibbings, printer
The Golden Cockerel Press, publisher