[Swift, Jonathan] | "Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old."

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft

[Swift, Jonathan]

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ... By Lemuel Gulliver. London: Benj[amin] Motte, 1726

4 parts in 2 volumes, 8vo (193 x 117 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Gulliver and 6 plates; some browning and light foxing. Contemporary English paneled speckled calf; lettering-pieces chipped, vol. 1 with extensive repairs to joints, splits to joints, other light wear. In a quarter calf folding case.

Teerink's B edition of Swift’s classic novel: the third octavo edition, with the frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state (with vertical chain lines).

REFERENCES:

Grolier/English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104; Teerink 291

PROVENANCE:

Thomas Johnes (armorial bookplates in each volume; sold in our London rooms, 28 July 1938, lot 847) — Walter Ganz, of Yonkers (pencil signatures on free endpapers)