Author: [SWIFT, JONATHAN] (1667-1745) - PADRAIC COLUM (TRANSLATOR),
Title: Gulliver's Reizen. Vertaald naar de nieuwe uitgave van Padraic Colum. [Translated from the original english Travels in some remote nations of the world].
Description: Zutphen, Thieme, [..], 1921. Medium stout 8°. Original coloured and illustrated publ. cloth. Covertitle in bold red and black type, large coloured illustration at centre, printed within a double red/black typographical border. Monochrome title on spine, monochrome illustration at tail. Bronw coloured decorative endpapers. Large square monochrome illustration in centre of ti.-p. (vi), 322pp Captioned coloured frontispiece, 11 captioned fine coloured plates by Willy Pogany (William Alexander Pogany, 1882-1955), numerous monochrome plates after drawings, incl. some dull-page illustrated sketch-maps featuring imaginary regions, monochrome decorative and bold black initials, large monochrome head-pieces, decorative endpieces, all after original drawings. Dutch language translation of Swift's mos famous book 'Gulliver's travels', which has often been mistakenloy thought of a children's book Gulliver's travels is a great sophisticated satire of human nature based on Swift' s experience of his times. Verh fine copy, untrimmed, in an almost spotless publ. binding.

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