SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World (With illustrations by Arthur Rackham).

With twelve coloured plates and numerous mono illustrations by Arthur Rackham. London: The Temple Press, 1937. First American (trade) edition. Medium octavo. pp. xv, 291. Publisher’s red cloth, titled in gilt and blind. Occasional foxing. A very good copy. Scarce.

A publisher’s note on page v: “The Publishers make no apology for a new edition of this ‘evergreen book’. They feel that the fine drawings of Mr. Arthur Rackham are a sufficient ‘raison d’être’ for their reappearance”. Twelve full-page colour plates by Arthur Rackham (including frontispiece), printed on coated stock, with twenty-two black-and-white drawings and head and tail pieces through the text. Rackham’s plates, at once playful and affectionately satirical, are among his finest late work on an eighteenth-century theme.

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