Original First Edition with complete all color plates by Pogany

"Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regiions of the World in Four Parts", by Jonathan Swift, edited by Padraic Colum, presented by Willy Pogany. Published by Macmillan, New York, '1917' is imprinted on the title page, 'Published November, 1917' on the copyright page (original first, 1917 Edition). 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.

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 was born in Dublin on November 30, 1667, and educated at Trinity College in the city. His father was a lawyer whose family had gone to Ireland after the Restoration. His cousin was the poet John Dryden. He obtained employment in England in 1689 as secretary to the diplomat and writer Sir William Temple, a distant relative of his mother. Swift's relations with his employer were not amicable, and in 1694 he went back to Ireland, where he took religious orders. Effecting a reconciliation with Temple, he returned to Temple's household in 1696. There he supervised the education of Esther Johnson, daughter of the widowed companion to Temple's sister. Swift remained with Temple until Temple's death in 1699. Swift's stay, gave him the time for an immense amount of concentrated reading and for writing.

Among Swift's earliest prose work was "The Battle of the Books" (1704), a burlesque of the controversy then raging in literary circles over the relative merits of ancient and modern writers. His "Tale of a Tub" (1704) is the most amusing of his satirical works and the most strikingly original.

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 favourite children's story.

William Andrew ("Willy") Pogany (born Vilmos Andras Pogany) (August 24, 1882 - July 30, 1955) was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. His contemporaries include C. Coles Phillips, Joseph Clement Coll, Edmund Dulac, Harvey Dunn, Walter Everett, Harry Rountree, Sarah Stilwell Weber, and N.C. Wyeth. He is best known for his pen and ink drawings of myths and fables. A large portion of Pogany's work is described as Art Nouveau. Pogany's artistic style is heavily fairy-tale orientated and often feature motifs of mythical animals such as nymphs and pixies. He paid great attention to botanical details. He used dreamy and warm pastel scenes with watercolors, oil paintings, and especially pen and ink. Painstakingly detailed and confident, Pogany's pen and ink pieces portray the true extent of his talent

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Hard cover, original pictorial, decorative in gold stamped cloth (wear between spine and boards, small cloth damage between spine and backboard: see picture), 5.3/4" x 7 3/4", the front endpaper is creased at the hinges, the title page and the page next to it are wrinkled at the top corner [see picture]; 296 pages, + 12 color plates on glossy paper, over 100 text illustrations, "maps" and decorations, a couple of very small yellowish stains, very good binding and condition. [l5nb]