Original first edition, 1920 print with complete all color plates by Willy Pogany.

"Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World in Four Parts", by Jonathan Swift, edited by Padraic Colum, presented by Willy Pogany. Published by Macmillan, New York, '1920' is imprinted on the title page, 'Published November, 1917' on the copyright page (original first edition, 1920 printing). The book is completely designed, decorated and illustrated by Pogany and contains all original color plates. This book is one of the finest artworks of the famous illustrator.

Hard cover, original blue cloth, blind embossed lettering and decoration on the front board, gold lettering on spine, 5.3/4" x 7.3/4", illustrated endpapers, xxx + 296 pages, + 12 color plates on glossy paper including frontispiece [all listed plates are present], over 100 text illustrations, "maps" and decorations, a couple of very small yellowish stains, page 125/126 has a small bottom edge damage [see photos]; very good condition.

Contents:

Introduction by the Publisher
Introduction by the Editor
"A Voyage to Lilliput",
"A Voyage to Brobdingnag",
"A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdribb, and Japan",
"A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms",

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Anglo-Irish satirist, considered one of the greatest masters of English prose and one of the most impassioned satirists of human folly and pretension. His pamphlets, prose, letters, and poetry were all marked by highly effective and economical language. Swift's masterpiece, "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World", more popularly titled "Gulliver's Travels", was published anonymously in 1726; it met with instant success. Swift's satire was originally intended as an allegorical and acidic attack on the vanity and hypocrisy of contemporary courts, statesmen, and political parties, but in the writing of his book, which is presumed to have taken more than six years, he incorporated his ripest reflections on human society. Nonetheless, it is so imaginatively, wittily, and simply written that the first book became and has remained a favorite children's story.

William Andrew Pogany (1882-1955) was a prolific Hungarian - American illustrator. He is considered one of the leading artists of The Golden Age of Illustration. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau.

Starting his artistic career in London, England, he moved to New York City in 1914 and he was naturalized in 1921. In 1914, Pogany's illustrations appeared on the cover of Metropolitan Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Harper's Weekly, Hearst's Town and Country, Theatre Magazine and American Weekly.[8] In 1917 to 1921, he worked for the Metropolitan Opera designing sketches, scenery and costumes. In 1918 he illustrated a children's retelling of Homer, The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy written by Padraic Colum.

Pogany also worked as an art director on several Hollywood films, including Fashions of 1934 and Dames. He began his involvement in motion picture set design in 1924 and worked in film until the end of the 1930s.

As a painter, he was commissioned by John Ringling, Ettenger, Reiner and William Randolph Hearst's Wyntoon Estate. Pogany also created artworks for the Barrymore family, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carole Lombard, Enrico Caruso, Miriam Hopkins, and many others.

Pogany was awarded gold medals in Budapest and Leipzig Expo as well as the London Masonic Medal, and became a Fellow of the London Royal Society of Art. The New York Society of Architects gave him a silver medal for his mural in the August Heckscher's Children's Theatre showing Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, and Jack in the Beanstalk. He won a gold medal in 1915 at the Panama Pacific Expo for his work The ValCares. He was also awarded the Hungarian Silver Blue Medal.

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