SWIFT, JONATHAN. Cresset Press. Gullivers' Travels.
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SWIFT, JONATHAN. Cresset Press. Gullivers' Travels. 2 volumes. Colored frontispieces and 10 plates, 5 maps, vignettes, and head- and tailpieces by Rex Whistler. Folio, bound by Monique Lallier in full light green morocco with dark green morocco inlays lettered in gilt on front and rear covers depicting the Remote Nations of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Balnibardi [sic], and Houyhnhnms, the front covers with folding panels that open to pop-ups constructed of variously colored and cut paper, top edges gilt; publisher's prospectus laid in; each in cloth folding case. Number 170 of 195 copies. A superb copy in an evocative and elaborate binding by Lallier. London: The Cresset Press, 1930
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SWIFT, JONATHAN. Cresset Press. Gullivers' Travels.
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