Cresset Press

Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London: The Cresset Press, 1930



2 volumes text, 1 volume of extra plates, folio (13 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.; 342 x 235 mm). Half-titles, 2 frontispieces, 10 engraved plates comprising illustrative scenes within historiated borders, the scenes hand-colored, 5 full-page engraved maps, 8 head- and tailpieces, a title-page vignette (repeated in vol. 2), one full-page diagram, all by Rex Whistler, with an extra set of the plates; first endpapers detached. Antique brown morocco, blind-tooled at bands, brass clasps and catches, gilt-ruled turn-ins, edges gilt, by Wood of London, the extra plates enclosed in a chemise of the same style; spines darkened, some scratches and soiling on the chemise.

first endpapers detached. Antique brown morocco, blind-tooled at bands, brass clasps and catches, gilt-ruled turn-ins, edges gilt, by Wood of London, the extra plates enclosed in a chemise of the same style; spines darkened, some scratches and soiling on the chemise.
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Number VIII of ten copies on Roman vellum, with an extra set of the plates, signed by the artist.