GULLIVER'S TRAVELS BY JONATHAN SWIFT 1909 ARTHUR RACKHAM FIRST EDITION, SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE FINE BINDING

[SWIFT, JONATHAN]. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909.

FIRST TRADE EDITION. Leather-bound; hardcover; royal octavo (23.5 x 15.5 x 4 cm.); pp. xv, 291. English text. Stunning binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in); bound in full red crushed morocco gilt; spine with five raised bands and twin morocco lettering-pieces, wide gilt turn-ins; silk moiré liners and endleaves; all page edges gilt; half-title, original pictorial endpapers and cloth covers bound in; 12 colour plates with tissue guards; numerous line drawings in the text. Printed at the Temple Press. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy. Bookplate to front endpaper.