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Creator:
Swift, Jonathan, 1667–1745
Title(s):
Travels into several remote nations of the world : in four parts / by Lemuel Gulliver ; first a surgeon, & then a captain of several ships.
Additional Title(s):
Gulliver's travels
Published/Created:
Waltham Saint Lawrence, in Berkshire : Printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, MCMXXV [1925]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3724 .G8 1925
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"This edition of Gulliver's travels was printed by Robert Gibbings at Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire, and completed on the XVII. day of November MCMXXV. 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 copies have been printed, of which nos. I-XXX are on hand-made paper."--Colophon.
Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1921-1949, 33
BEIN: This copy is one of the 30 copies. Signed by the artist.
BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 106. Bound in white half buckram with black paper covered boards.
Subject Terms:
Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Islands -- Fiction.
Jones, David Michael, 1895–1974 -- Autograph.
Private press books -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawrence -- Specimens.
Satire.
Travelers -- Fiction.
Voyages, Imaginary.
Form/Genre:
Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- Waltham Saint Lawence.
Satire.
Wood engravings -- 1925.
Wood engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1925.
Handmade paper printings (Publishing)
Contributors:
Golden Cockerel Press, publisher.
Jones, David, 1895–1974, illustrator.
Cooper, A. C. (Albert C.), pressman.
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