Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World / Lemuel Gulliver
Book
Bound for Beauty #86
384 p. : 100 ill.
Note: publisher's advertisements to rear
Preface by Henry Craik.
Contents:
A voyage to Lilliput
A voyage to Brobdingnag
A voyage to Laputa, etc
A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
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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