Gullivers Travels 12 ill Arthur Rackham 1909 1st Ed

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Gullivers Travels 12 ill Arthur Rackham 1909 1st Ed:
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Gullivers Travels 12 ill Arthur Rackham 1909 1st Ed!

Gulliver\'s Travels

With illustrations by Arthur Rackham

Published by: J.M.Dent and E.P. Dutton Company

Printed in: 1909

Pages: 12 Full page color illustrations

Illustrations by: Arthur Rackham

Condition

The book is in good condition. There are is a signature in the front and no bookplates or markings of any other kind. The front hinge has been reinforced with tape. The gilt lettering and decoration to the outside board is bright and unrubbedThere is some yellowing to the endpapers, but the rest of the pages are clean and free of any foxing. This book contains all 12 of Rackham\'s original prints. A rare copy of Swift\'s classic tale.

Synopsis

Gulliver\'s Travels, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature in Four Parts. On his first voyage, Gulliver is washed ashore after a shipwreck and awakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people one-twelfth the size of normal human beings. On his second voyage, he is abandoned by his companions and found by a farmer who is 60 feet tall. On his third voyage, he is attacked by pirates and marooned on a desolate rocky island. He is rescued by the flying island of Laputa, a kingdom devoted to the arts of music and mathematics, but utterly unable to use these for practical ends. On his final trip, he discovers a utopia ruled by horses. It is Swift\'s best known work, and a classic of English literature.

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Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric who became Dean of St. Patrick\'s, Dublin. He is remembered for works such as Gulliver\'s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Journal to Stella, Drapier\'s Letters, The Battle of the Books, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, and A Tale of a Tub. Swift is probably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, and is less well known for his poetry. Due to the contoversial nature of his work he originally published all of his work anonymously or under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff,
M.B. Drapier.

Arthur Rackham (1867 – 1939) was a prolific English book illustrator. He was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying at the Lambeth School of Art. In 1892, he quit his job and started working for The Westminster Budget as a reporter and illustrator. His works were included in numerous exhibitions, including one at the Louvre in Paris in 1914. While he may be best known for his elaborate illustrations of children\'s literature and fairy tales, he also illustrated books for adult readers, including A Midsummer Night\'s Dream (1908) and Undine.

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