Thomas Ingoldsby - THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS or MIRTH AND MARVELS - 1885
N. 84178037
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - 1890
N. 84178037
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels - 1890
"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift and illustrated by the Late T. Morten - Cassell, London - ca 1890 first thus UK edition - 25cmx18cm - condition: good, in original decorated boards, with some wear to spine linings, all b/w illustations present.
Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire[1][2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best-known full-length work and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it".
The book was an immediate success. The English dramatist John Gay remarked, "It is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery
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