Beschreibung:

8vo. VIII, (2) leaves, 148 p., (3) leaves, p. (149)-310; (3) leaves, 154 p., (4) leaves, p. (155)-353. With engraved frontispiece portrait by Sheppard and 5 engraved maps and 1 diagram. Contemp. Calf, spine labels (vol. I carefully rebacked). 4 parts in 2 vol.

Bemerkung:

Third of three editions (Teerinks B edition) in the same year, the first (A) published October 27th, the second (AA) published in November, and this "B" published in December. - Jonathan Swift's (1667-1745) immortal satire, wherein the author, using sham names, chimerical adventures, fabulous descriptions, and other fictions, characterizes several princes an nations of Europe; exposes the fault and mismanagements of ministers of state; and lashes the corruption and vices of the age in different professions, civil an military, but spares the ecclesiastical. «It cannot be denied that Gulliver's Travels are an ingenious romantick satire, in imitation of Plato's Commonwealth, Moore's Utopia, Bacon's New Atlantis, Rabelais, and the History of the Severambi» (cited after famous work as early as 1720. The book was immediately acclaimed, an it has been widely read ever since, both as a bitter satire and as a fantasy for children. Of his many works, all but one published anonymously, «Gulliver's Travels» was the only one for which received any payment. - Teerink 291. - PMM 185. - Rothschild 2104. - Passmann, Full of Improbable Lies: Gulliver's Travels und die Reiseliteratur vor 1726 (1987), 346-347. - Lewine 520.