Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world / Jonathan Swift ; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
Category
Books
Date
1909
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3100845
Summary
Bibliographic description
xv, [1], 291, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm. Bookseller's erased pencil code and price on front free endpaper verso: "hcss/0172" and "30-00.". Provenance: Manuscript inscription on front pastedown: "Huttleston Broughton. / January 1909." [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 24 [1924]: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; gilt stamped illustration of Gulliver and the King of Lilliput on upper board; sewn onto five raised bands; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Gulliver's travels' and 'Illustrated by Arthur Rackham'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillet and rolls on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; grey endpapers. Original illustrated endpapers not retained. Original gold blocked pale blue cloth front wrapper and spine retained. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf 1909'
Makers and roles
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), author Arthur Rackham (Lewisham 1867 – Limpsfield 1939), illustrator