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Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World / Lemuel Gulliver

2017.11.16

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Imaginary placesJuvenile fictionConduct of life1890s

7 in

Lemuel GulliverJonathan Swift

C.E. Brock

First Thus

The Cranford Series

London

England

1894

R. & R. Clark

Edinburgh

ScotlandUnited Kingdom

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Bound in dark green cloth with elaborate detailed gilt illustration of Gulliver and the Lilliputians to the front cover. All edges gilt. Dark green coated endpapers. Cover design after an engraving by Charles E. Brock. Cover signed KC- Katharine Cameron?

Owner's bookplate on end papers.

Katharine Cameron

Possible binding designer

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