Author: SWIFT. JONATHAN.
Title: GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. With prefatory memoir by George Saintsbury. - Illustrated.
Description: G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York and London. 1887. FIRST PRINTING OF THIS EDITION. Two volumes. Small 8vo. (5.7 x 3.8 inches). Illustrated with line engravings through, many full page. The illustrations are unsigned and I cannot find any details of the illustrator. A very good set in attractive contemporary leather bindings of half red morocco. Spines with five raised bands, each with gilt decoration. Compartments double ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Marbled paper on the boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edges gilt. Some rubbing to the extremities but overall a lovely copy of Swift's classic. Issued as No. 3 of Putnam's Knickerbocker Nuggets series.

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