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Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver..., 2
Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver..., 2
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[Swift (Jonathan)] Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver..., 4 parts in 2 vol., The Second Edition [vol. 2, second edition, corrected], 5 titles, engraved portrait frontispiece of Gulliver, 5 maps and 1 plate, advertisement leaf preceding title to vol. 2, *1-2 (fifth preliminary poem) misbound after title rather than b4, 2 plates trimmed at fore-edge with slight loss, some light spotting or browning but overall a crisp set, armorial bookplate of Samuel Wall Armiger, contemporary calf-backed boards, rebacked with original spine laid-down, rubbed, [Teerink 293], 8vo, Benj[amin] Motte, 1727.

⁂ The first Motte edition, with the the 24-page setting of the Verses (which include the additional fifth poem 'The Words of the King of Brobdingnag', now ascribed to Pope).
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Swift (Jonathan) Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. By Capt. Lemuel Gulliver..., 2

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