Gulliver's Travels

Overview:

  • Title: Gulliver's Travels
  • Author: Jonathan Swift
  • Year: 1930
  • Publisher: Cresset Press
  • Pages: 157+170
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Gulliver's Travels
  • Notes:
    • 2 volumes in slipcase. Limited edition of 195 copies on handmade paper + 10 deluxe copies on vellum.
    • 2 hand-colored, engraved frontispieces and 15 plates, 10 hand-colored, engraved head- and tail-pieces; 5 full-page maps.
    • Deluxe edition includes all full-page plates hand-colored by Rex Whistler and an additional suite with all plates signed in ink by Whistler. The additional suite of plates, loosely inserted into paper mounts, consists of all of the maps, head- and tail-pieces without text, each signed by Whistler in ink and the frontispiece and full-page hors-texte plates from the second volume hand-colored and also signed by Whistler in ink.
    • Data from Christie's Auction House, Sims Reed Ltd (booksellers), and Bromer Booksellers.