Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World / Lemuel Gulliver

Front cover and spine

Front cover and spine

Name/Title

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World / Lemuel Gulliver

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.16

Description

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.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Imaginary places, Juvenile fiction, Conduct of life, 1890s

Dimensions

Height

7 in

Book Details

Author

Lemuel Gulliver, Jonathan Swift

Illustrator

C.E. Brock

Edition

First Thus

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1894

Printer

R. & R. Clark

Place Printed

City

Edinburgh

Country

Scotland, United Kingdom

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Notes

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?

Notes

Owner's bookplate on end papers.

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Katharine Cameron

Notes

Possible binding designer

Exhibition

Bound for Beauty: Highlights from the Roberts Collection