The Adventures of Captain Gulliver, in a Voyage to the Islands of Lilliput & Brobdingnag

1794 · Boston

by Swift, Jonathan
Boston: Printed and sold by S. Hall, 1794. Fair.. 119,[6]pp. Lacks pp.47-50. Illustrated. 16mo. Original birch boards covered in green patterned paper. Front cover broken and two pieces separated but present. Spine heavily worn with loss at top and bottom. Rear cover detached and broken in two pieces. Minor soiling and foxing to text. Two leaves excised; top corner of final leaf of ads torn away resulting in slight loss to several lines, leaf detached. A charming, if somewhat battered, copy of one of the first American editions of Swift's popular work, published here with numerous woodcut illustrations. The first American edition of this work seems to (truncated)
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