{"product_id":"jonathan-swift-gullivers-travels-remote-nations-112545","title":"Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ebound by Rivière\u003c\/h4\u003eA very handsome two-volume set in brown morocco by Rivière of the first edition, third issue of \u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e, published within two months of the first. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe very first issue of Jonathan Swift's \u003cem\u003eTravels into Several Remote Nations of the World\u003c\/em\u003e, known more popularly as 'Gulliver's Travels,' was published by Benjamin Motte, JR. on 28th October, in two volumes. This is known as the 'A Edition'. Following the immediate success of the book, Motte rushed to produce two more issues, with this edition, the 'B edition' published within two months of the first. The designated second and third editions followed in 1727.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwift (1667-1745) had completed the draft for his satire by August 1725, however publication of this potentially politically explosive work was delayed until October the following year, when with the help of his friends Alexander Pope, and John Gay and Erasmus Lewis, it as brought through the press of Benjamin Motte.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eGulliver's Travels\u003c\/em\u003e would go on to become Swift's most acclaimed work, and the book by which he is chiefly remembered today. 'Its allegorical mode of satire constantly modulates between specific allusions and general types, reflecting characters and events traceable to prototypes in Stuart and Georgian court politics (in Lilliput and Brobdingnag), and to people and events in Swift's own personal life (the king of Brobdingnag as Temple, for example, or the Flying Island as an allegory of English imperialism in Ireland). It also includes moments of farcical low comedy in the Academy of Lagado (part 3) and elsewhere. It is in part 4 (the voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms) that Swift reaches the supremely vexing point of his whole writing career, mixing comedy with the tragi-comic psychological collapse of Gulliver, the representative Englishman who turns his back on the whole human race because it has failed to live up to the ideal of reason' (ODNB).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst edition, third issue (known as the 'B edition'); 2 vols, 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm); bookplate to front pastedown of both vols, bookseller's description affixed to front flyleaf of the first volume, clean text with occasional faint toning to leaves, complete with the second issue frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in black and white, contains 6 illustrated maps and plans, marbled endpapers; full brown morocco bound by the Rivière Bindery of London, double gilt fillet border with floral decorative corner-pattern in gilt, spine gilt in 6 compartments with raised bands, title gilt in spine, all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins, a very handsome set; 310, 353 pp.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eESTC T139452; Teerink\/Scouten 291.","brand":"[SWIFT, Jonathan].","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536485523831,"sku":"112545","price":6500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/112545_8af281ee-7d53-4171-a0cb-477fa88506cc.jpg?v=1791593787","url":"https:\/\/shapero.com\/products\/jonathan-swift-gullivers-travels-remote-nations-112545","provider":"Shapero Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}