Travels into several remote nations of the world : In four parts (v.1-2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Travels into several remote nations of the world : In four parts (v.1-2)
Other titles: Gulliver's travels
Classmark: BC Lt SWI
Creator(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)
Additional creator(s): Motte, Benjamin (1738) (Other)
Publisher: Printed for Benj. Motte
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1726
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes (viii, 4 unnumbered pages, 310; 6 unnumbered pages, 353 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/284950
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002026079705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Teerink 291. The "B" edition (3rd 8vo ed.), publ. Dec. 1726.", with the portrait in the second state (with the inscription "Captain Lemuel Gulliver..." round the oval rather than underneath); there is no edition statement on the general t.p. to part 2.
By Jonathan Swift.
The two volumes are in four parts, each with separate t.p. but continuous pagination to each volume.
Signatures: v. 1: A-K⁸, L³, M-X⁸, Y¹; v. 2: A³, B-K⁸, L⁵, M-Z⁸, Aa⁸.
Contents: Vol. 1: (Part 1. A voyage to Lilliput. Part 2. A voyage to Brobdingnang); Vol. 2: Part 3. A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb. Luggnagg, and Japan. Part 4. A voyage to the Houyhnhnms.
v. 1: p. 68 is misnumbered as 66; 165 as 164; 168-69 as 167-68; 172-73 as 171-72; 176-77 as 175-76; 178-79 as 179-78; 180 as 179; 213 as 113; 216-17 as 116-17; 220-21 as 120-21; 224-25 as 124-25; 228 as 128.
Initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Indexed in: Reference: Teerink, H. & Scouten, H. "A bibliography of the writings of Jonathan Swift", 2nd ed., (Phil., 1963).
Additional description
In contemporary binding. Lettered on spine: FIRST EDITION
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