ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN GULLIVER. In a Voyage to Lilliput
by SWIFT. JONATHAN
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- Paperback
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About This Item
Printed and Published by G. Ross. Edinburgh. - (No date). Circa 1814. Small 8vo. (3.9 x 2.5 inches). 48pp, including the first and last blanks which are pasted directly onto the inside leaves of the printed wrappers. Sewn text pages. Illustrated with a full page wood-engraved frontispiece of Captain Gulliver and 12 smaller woodcuts within the text. Original blue printed paper wrappers with upside-down double face illustration on lower cover. Neat ink title written on the front panel otherwise a fine copy of this scarce little edition, issued in Ross's Juvenile Library. A remarkable survivor. The work is undated but the British Library catalogue suggests a publication date of either 1814 or 1815, while the Bodleian Library estimates 1815.
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- Paul Foster Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10775
- Title
- ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN GULLIVER. In a Voyage to Lilliput
- Author
- SWIFT. JONATHAN
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Printed and Published by G. Ross. Edinburgh. - (No date). Circa 1814
- Date Published
- 1814
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Children's and Illustrated books;
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Wrappers
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- G
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- Leaves
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