Gulliver's Travels: Volume III (Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Capt Lemuel Gulliver, Vol III)
Author:
SWIFT, JONATHAN (& ANONYMOUS)
Title:
Gulliver's Travels: Volume III (Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World by Capt Lemuel Gulliver, Vol III)
Publisher:
LONDON: Printed in the Year M.DCC.XXVII. (1727)
Description:
A very scarce forged illegitimate third volume of Gulliver's Travels, issued in 1727, octavo, brown leather boards, remnants of gilt lettering & rule with raised bands to spine, gilt rule/borders to boards, decorative blind stamp to board edges, (14) + 159pp, vignette to prelims, decorated headers at begininning of new chapter pages, G (boards & ffep completely detached but present, spine heavily crackled with severe rubbing & heavy surface loss, heavy scuffing to boards & board edges with age appropriate discolouration, heavy tanning & moderate soiling/staining to page edges, level of internal tanning & markings at level expected of books this age but text block still very clear, multiple prev. owners' names in ink to prelim pgs- historical)
Keywords:
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