Gulliver’s Travels [Miniature]

$300

By Jonathon Swift:

Beautiful silk-woven miniature edition of this classic satire [first published in 1726]

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Description

  • Effectively a centenary edition of the bestselling Irish novel of all  time [Dracula comes in at #2]
  • Two volumes bound as one
  • Part of the Jones’ Diamond Classics series, so named due to the diamond-point tooling used to produce sharp, clear text in these miniature formats.
  • Miniature Edition [Jones & Company, London, 1827]; 9 x 5.5cm; blank leaf, 12 pages Publisher’s ads, 2 plates [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1826], xxviii, 200, [portrait, tissue guard & University Edition title page, 1826], viii, 210, [2 blank] pages
  • Green silk-woven boards, spine ends bumped, edges rubbed, silk unravelling from base of spine, blue paper on spine with gold titling, all edges gilt, an excellent copy
  • Includes Sketch of the Life of Swift