1930 ❧ Gulliver illustrated in color. [CRESSET PRESS]. SWIFT, JONATHAN. 1667-1745. Gulliver's Travels. London: Cresset Press, 1930. 2 volumes, folio (355 x 250 mm). Title-page vignettes featuring a bust of Swift, 12 hand-colored engraved plates, 5 full-page engraved maps, and 8 head- and tailpieces, all after designs by Rex Whistler. Some light offsetting from plates. Original green 1/2 morocco by Wood, vellum boards, top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Spines faded. LIMITED EDITION, number 4 of 195 copies on barcham green handmade paper of a total edition of 205. A masterpiece of 20th-century British private press book production. The illustrative style of Rex Whistler (1905-1944), which rejected stark modernist experimentation to embrace elaborate 18th-century rococo aesthetics, proved to be an ideal match for Jonathan Swift's satire. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing