Jonathan Swift / Arthur Rackham (ill) - Gulliver's Travels - 1909

"Gulliver's Travels" de Jonathan Swift e ilustrado por Arthur Rackham

J.M. Dent, Londres - 1909 primeira edição Rackham - Contém doze placas em cores, incluindo o frontispício, todas com guarda de papel translúcido, além de vários desenhos em linha - 290p, 25cmx20cm - condição: muito boa, variante de lombada verde-oliva com impressão em dourado, pequenos desgastes nas bordas, completo com todas as ilustrações de Rackham.

"Gulliver's Travels has given Swift an immortality beyond temporary fame. All those who had been fascinated by the realism and vivid detail of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe were captivated again, even though they knew that Gulliver must be fiction. The brilliance and thoroughness with which his logic and invention work out the piquancies of scale involved by the giant human among the Lilliputians, and then by a minikin Gulliver among the Brobdingnagians, ran away with the author's original intention. Gulliver's Travels has achieved the final apotheosis of a satirical fable, but it has also become a tale for children. For every edition designed for the reader with an eye to the historical background, twenty have appeared, abridged or adapted, for readers who care nothing for the satire and enjoy it as a first-class story" (Printing and the Mind of Man). Aqui, a narrativa recebe vida com as ilustrações excepcionais de Rackham, que destacam tanto o humor quanto a escuridão que perpassa a obra de Swift.