[Children's & Illustrated] [Rackham, Arthur] Swift, Jonathan Gulliver’s Travels Into Several
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London: J.M. Dent & Co./New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1909. First and limited edition (reprint of 1900 Rackham-illustrated edition with enlarged pages and added illustrations), #419/750 numbered copies, signed by Rackham. 4to. (xvi), (292) pp. Illustrated with color frontispiece and 12 color plates, all mounted, and numerous in-text black and white illustrations. Publisher's white cloth, decorated in gilt, boards lightly soiled, spine darkened; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; illustrated vellum-style endpapers, rear foxed and stained; one rose-colored cloth tie wanting; previous owner's inscription within printed book-plate on front paste-down. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 30-31; Riall p. 91
Publisher’s note laid in: “The plate facing page 256, entitled 'The Yahoos,' only appears in this Large Paper Edition, which is limited to 750 copies, and is not included in the ordinary edition.”
Provenance
From the Children’s and Illustrated Books Library of Nicholas Wedge, Ossining, New York
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