Travels into Several remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts, by Lemuel Gulliver
hardcover
1726 · London
by [SWIFT, Jonathan]
London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. Second. hardcover. very good. Four parts in two volumes, as issued. Engraved frontispiece portrait in first volume, 5 engraved maps, and 1 plate of the Word Engine, decorative headpieces & initials throughout. xii, 148, [6], 164; [6], 154, [8], 155-353 pages. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, beautifully rebound in brown blind stamped polished calf, red leather spine labels. London: Benj. Motte, 1726. Early mixed printing with 1st volume being Teerink's AA (second) edition, and 2nd volume the B (third) edition. Frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state, as usual, with vertical chain lines and the lettering around the oval frame. This is Teerink's "AA" state of the first edition. The first 3 Motte printings from 1726 were long considered to be different issues of a single first edition but later bibliographical analysis showed them to be separate editions. Teerink still thought it advisable to stick to the practice of calling them all 'first editions, partly since both printer and author thought of them that way. and precede the 1727 edition, which says "second edition, corrected" on the title-page. --Teerink 290 & 291; PMM 185. (Inventory #: 293081)