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SIGNED AND NUMBERED COPY OF GULLIVER`S TRAVELS BY ARTHUR RACKHAM


Estimate: Rs 85,000-Rs 1,00,000 ( $1,330-$1,565 )


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TITLE: Gulliver's Travels
SUB TITLE: Into Several Remote Nations of the World
AUTHOR: Jonathan Swift
PUBLISHER: J. M. Dent & Co.
PLACE: London
YEAR: 1909
EDITION: Second
NUMBERED: Large Paper Edition, UK issue. Limited to [a total of] 750 numbered copies, signed by Arthur Rackham, this being copy no. 36 of the English issue.
BINDING: Publisher's cream buckram decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover and spine. Top edge gilt, others uncut, decorative endpapers printed in gold. Original rose colored silk ties. A very fine copy without the original printed cardboard box.
NO.OF PAGES: [2], xv, [1, blank], 291, [1 blank] pp. xxii, 121, [1] pp. Thirteen mounted and captioned color plates. Two full-page black and white illustrations and seven chapter headings and tail-pieces
SIZE:
Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 22.5 cm
Depth: 4.5 cm

A VERY FINE COPY OF THE SIGNED AND NUMBERED ARTHUR RACKHAM'S GULLIVER TRAVELS

The UK edition is identical to the American edition. There was only one printing with the first 600 copies being for the UK market and numbers 601-750 for the American market. The only difference between the UK and the US editions being the publishers name at thefoot of the spine.

Second and best edition, being a reprint of the 1900 edition, with added illustrations in color and larger pages (the 1900 edition contained a color frontispiece and eleven full-page black and white illustrations). This deluxe edition contains an additional color plate not included in the trade edition, "The Lilliputian Tailors Measure Gulliver for a New Suit of Clothes," facing p. 48.