Swift, Jonathan.

8vo (197 x 117mm.) 2 volumes, "B" edition, frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in volume 1, four maps and two plans, woodcut head-pieces and initials, misnumbered pages as called for in volume 1, with the four "Keys" bound in at the end of each part (as noted by Teerinck in some copies), contemporary blind-tooled panelled calf, red speckled edges, preserved in brown cloth chemises and brown quarter morocco slipcase, some occasional browning and spotting, corners slightly bumped, some slight wear to edges of binding

Teerinck 291

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A handsome copy in a contemporary panelled binding of the "B" edition of Gulliver's Travels.

The first printing of Gulliver's Travels appeared on 28 October 1726. It was succeeded by two further editions by Motte in the following two months (Teerinck AA and B). However it was the edition of May 1727 that Motte designated the "Second Edition". The present copy is therefore the third of three distinct editions which are by convention, and in deference to the publisher, known collectively as the first edition.

The practice of including the "Keys" to Gulliver's Travels, some of which were printed separately with frontispiece, title, additional verses and advertisements in the autumn of 1727 (see Teerinck 1215), began with this "B" edition. However many copies do not contain them.