Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Swift (Jonathan) Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Lemuel Gulliver, 4 parts in 2 vol., second edition, 5 titles, frontispiece portrait, 6 plates of maps or diagrams, woodcut head and tail pieces and decorative initials, advertisement f. preceding title to vol. 2, light foxing and browning throughout, first few ff. loose including endpapers on both, frontispiece and title page (vol. 1) and advertisement f. (vol. 2) but held together, title page and frontispiece vol. 1 split at gutter and coming loose, front hinges broken, rear hinges cracked, later 19th century calf by W. Mansell, rubbed, joints weak, spines detached from text-block and held to boards only, [Teerink 293; ESTC T139025], 8vo, Benj[amin] Motte, 1727. *** With the Five Verses (which include the additional fifth poem 'The Words of the King of Brobdingnag', now ascribed to Pope).

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