Book - Gulliver's Travels
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels ... with Prefatory Memoir bu George Saintsbury. Illustrated in Two Volumes ... New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press [1887].
1887 (Date published)
Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels ... with Prefatory Memoir bu George Saintsbury. Illustrated in Two Volumes ... New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons. The Knickerbocker Press [1887].
12mo (143 x 95..), two volumes bound in original publisher's quarter navy cloth stamped in gold with patterned cloth boards. Ink ownership inscription of Helena Dillingham dated 1897 to front free endpapers of each volume.
An affordable, yet beautifully bound, illustrated copy of Gulliver's Travels. A nice representation of the kind of book that would have been commonly found on an average family's bookshelf in 1880s New England.
12mo (143 x 95..), two volumes bound in original publisher's quarter navy cloth stamped in gold with patterned cloth boards. Ink ownership inscription of Helena Dillingham dated 1897 to front free endpapers of each volume.
An affordable, yet beautifully bound, illustrated copy of Gulliver's Travels. A nice representation of the kind of book that would have been commonly found on an average family's bookshelf in 1880s New England.
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