The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipma🌳n

Swift, Jonathan

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World...by Lemuel Gulliver. London: Benj. Motte, 1726

2 volumes, 8vo (194 x 118 mm). Title pages to each part, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head and tailpieces, woodcut initials, 5 engraved maps and another engraved plate;ܫ some scattered spotting and staining, minor marginal repairs to title of 3rd part, some minor restoration to a few corners in Vol. II, not affecting text. Full modern calf, covers decoratively paneled with inlays of calf, decorative corner pieces, spines with raised bands in five compartments, seconds with red gilt-lett✅ered labels, marbled endpapers.  

First edition, first printing "of one of the earliest and greatest of all English novels, by the author who as a satirist...has no equal in English for range, subtlety, and power" (Clive Probyn, ODNB).