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
