[Swift, Jonathan] | "One of the earliest and greatest of all English novels"

Property from the Library of John M. Schiff

[Swift, Jonathan]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver ... London: Benj. Motte, 1726

2 volumes 8vo (193 x 120 mm). Title-pages to each part, engraved portrait frontispiece (first state), woodcut head and tailpieces, woodcut initials, 5 engraved maps and another engraved plate; light scattered foxing and browning. Full contemporary dark brown paneled calf, spines with raised bands in 6 compartments, second compartments with brown morocco labels lettered in gilt; rebacked but with original spines preserved, rubbed at extremities, exposure to corners and some loss to spine.

First edition, first printing, Teerink's A edition, "of one of the earliest and greatest of all English novels, by the author who as a satirist ... has no equal in English for range, subtlety, and power" (Clive Probyn, ODNB).

REFERENCE:

Teerink 289; PMM 185; Grolier, English 42