SWIFT Jonathan. - - Lot 257

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SWIFT Jonathan. - - Lot 257
SWIFT Jonathan. - Gulliver's Travels. Paris, Quantin, [1884]. Large in-8°, publisher's percaline, rich polychrome decoration, wide mosaic band imitating a reptile skin, decorated with a gilt chain and anchor, gilt head, cover and spine cons. This edition, illustrated with compositions by Poirson, is one of the first to be published in color using the gillotage process (see Carteret). Fine specimen binding, slight defect to one of the bands. Gumuchian, 5492: "First complete and exact translation made on the English text...Until then we had been reduced to the version of the Abbé Desfontaines, more or less completed and rejuvenated". AP
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