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[Gulliver's Travels] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION (Teeerink's 'A' Edition), engraved portrait frontispiece (second state), 6 engraved maps and plans, red speckled edges to text block, some light spotting and browning, contemporary calf, sides with double-fillet gilt border, neatly rebacked preserving most of original spines, later red and green gilt morocco lettering labels, some abrasions, modern cloth slipcase [Teerink 289; Grolier English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-2106], 8vo, Benjamin Motte, 1726
Footnotes:
First edition of the author's masterpiece, Teerink's 'A' edition published on 28 October 1726, which 'has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame... [his] sustained logic in invention and a facility for absorbing the reader till fiction becomes reality, bought Swift a different and far wider readership than he had envisaged' (PMM).

Provenance: W. Gower, ink signature in upper margin of both titles; Sotheby's, 12 December 2012, lot 85.
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