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Swift, Jonathan; Speed, Lancelot (illus.); Morris, Edie (illus.).
Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa & The Country of the Houyhnhnms.
Publisher: Seeley, Service & Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1924
Stock Code: 15043
Octavo, pp., 334, [2] publisher’s advertisements, plus frontispiece and 6 illustrated plates after drawings by Lancelot Speed. Publisher’s original pictorial grey and blue cloth, in the scarce colour-printed pictorial dust jacket designed by Edith Morris. Jacket price-clipped, loss to head of lower panel (approx 5 x 5cm), minor loss to spine-tips and corners, spine toned. Cloth clean, hinges sound. Light even toning to contents but else internally clean. A near-fine copy in good jacket. An unabridged edition of Swift’s most famous work, in the dust jacket by designer Edith Morris. The jacket depicts characters and scenes from novels including Don Quixote, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Robinson Crusoe, and, of course, Gulliver towering over the Lilliputians. Morris also designed jackets for The Flower Show (1924-7) and The Wind in the Willows (1933). A charming edition in the scarce 1924 dust jacket. £95.00