Swift Jonathan Notes Life Author (4 results)

Condition: Good. New York: Leavitt & Allen, 1856. Sm 8vo. Various paginations. Illus. Good book. Spine ends chipped. Boards rubbed and edgeworn; corners bent. Owner's name on pastedown. Binding cracked at first p. 145 (signature 13). Pages aged and foxed. Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Chicago and New York: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1884. Title pages dated 1884. Caxton Edition printed in front cover. Two title in one book, illustrated with full page engravings. Golden tan cloth with gilt spine lettered and extensive spine and front cover decoration in gilt, 333 + 133 pages. Very good copy with light shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, lightly age-toned but clean pages, brief gift notation written on preliminary blank, no other names or markings. Hard Cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Bound in three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spine with 5 raised hubs and six compartments, t.e.g., marbled endpapers, with over 400 of the wonderful wood-engravings of Grandville, no markings, NOT ex-lib, boards show rubbed wear to spine ends & corners, some abrading of leather top front panel edges, hinges starting but both firm and binding tight, pages bright & unfoxed, remnants of personal bookplate to front pastedown, an excellent solid copy; 4to; (lx) 508pp illus.

Hardcover. Condition: g+. Reprint. Quarto. 16, LX, 508pp. Contemporary 3/4 green morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece. Illustrated haed-, tailpieces, and initials. First published in 1726, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World " is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. This splendid edition is delightfully illustrated throughout with over 400 wood-engravings from designs by Grandville. Age wear on binding with heavy rubbing along edges with sporadic abrasion to leather. Binding in overall fair, interior in very good condition.