Burnside Rare Books

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. [Gulliver's Travels]

[Swift, Jonathan]; David Jones [Illustrations]; Eric Gill [Initials]

Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1925.

Copy number 24 of the first 30 copies, printed on Batchelor handmade papers signed by David Jones; from a limited edition of 450 total. Two volumes; illustrated with 42 woodcuts by David Jones (many hand-colored) and 27 initials by Eric Gill. Bound in publisher's cream linen cloth with spines lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear and trace soiling to cloth. Bookplates of former owners at front free pastedowns, offsetting at endsheets and light age spotting to preliminaries of Volume II. Light offsetting from plates throughout contents. A beautiful fine press edition of Jonathan Swift's enduring satirical 18th-century novel being the first Golden Cockerel Press book with artist and polymath David Jones' illustrations. The volumes are reproduced from the text of the Henry G. Bohn edition of 1864 under the careful supervision of Robert Gibbings after Hal Taylor's death in 1925. A playful, colorful production that charmingly weaves vignettes of the story's protagonist and narrator, Gulliver, through his several unusual voyages. Item #140947746

Price: $12,800