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Gulliver's Travels to Lilliput Brobdingnag Laputa & The Country of the Houyhnhnms.
192415043London; Seeley Service & Co. 1924. 1924. Octavo pp. 334 2 publisher's advertisements plus frontispiece and 6 illustrated plates after drawings by Lancelot Speed. Publisher's original pictorial grey and blue cloth in the scarce colour-printed pictorial dust jacket designed by Edith Morris. Jacket price-clipped loss to head of lower panel approx 5 x 5cm minor loss to spine-tips and corners spine toned. Cloth clean hinges sound. Light even toning to contents but else internally clean. A near-fine copy in good jacket. An unabridged edition of Swift's most famous work in the dust jacket by designer Edith Morris. The jacket depicts characters and scenes from novels including Don Quixote Uncle Tom's Cabin Robinson Crusoe and of course Gulliver towering over the Lilliputians. Morris also designed jackets for The Flower Show 1924-7 and The Wind in the Willows 1933. A charming edition in the scarce 1924 dust jacket. London; Seeley, Service & Co., [1924]. hardcover
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