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Gulliver's travels into several remote regions of the world / by Jonathan Swift ; with a life of the author.
LIBRA - Gulliver's Travels Collection Gulliver 22
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.
- Standardized Title:
- Gulliver's travels
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
- Gulliver, Lemuel.
- Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character).
- Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages, Imaginary.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Denison, Geoffrey (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 333 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Manufacture:
- [London] : A. Sweeting.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Scott, Webster, and Geary, 1839.
- Notes:
- Added title page engraved after H. Courbould and G. Courbould.
- In four parts : Pt. I. A voyage to Lilliput. Pt. II. A voyage to Brobdingnag. Pt. III. A voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan. Pt. IV. A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms.
- "This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages relating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages; together with the minute description of the management of the ship ... to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of readers."--"The publisher to the reader," p. xx, signed: Richard Sympson.
- Local Notes:
- Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.
- OCLC:
- 150508540
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