Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrées lointaines / par Swift ; edition illustrée par Grandville ; traduction nouvelle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Contributor:

Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847, illustrator.

Brévière, Louis Henri, 1797-1869, wood-engraver.

Piaud, Antoine Alphée, active 1837-1866, wood-engraver.

Sears, Matthew Urlwin, approximately 1800- wood-engraver.

Verdeil, Pierre, 1812- wood-engraver.

Français, Louis, 1814-1897, delineator.

Le Vayer de Boutigny, Roland, 1627-1685, binder.

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832.

Geoffrey Denison Gulliver's Travels Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Fournier (Firm), publisher.

Furne (Firm), publisher.

Imprimerie de H. Fournier et Cie (Paris, France), printer.

Standardized Title:

Gulliver's travels. French

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Swift, Jonathan.

Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Gulliver, Lemuel.

Gulliver, Lemuel (Fictitious character).

Voyages, Imaginary--Early works to 1800.

Voyages, Imaginary.

Travelers--Fiction.

Travelers.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Denison, Geoffrey (former owner)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (6 unnumbered pages, lxix, that is, lix, 279 pages ; 3 unnumbered pages, 319 pages) : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Paris : H. Fournier ainé, éditeur, rue de Seine, 16 : Furne et cie., libraires-éditeurs, rue Saint-André-des-Arts, 55, 1838.

Contents:

Divisional titles for each part: Tome 1: Voyages de Gulliver ; 1. ptie. Voyage à Lilliput ; Appendice au Voyage à Lilliput ; 2. ptie. Voyage à Brobdingnag

Tome 2: 3. ptie. Voyage à Laputa ; 4. ptie. Voyage au pays des Houyhnhnms.

Notes:

Error in paging, t. 1: nos. l-lix omitted.

"Imprimerie de H. Fournier et comp., rue de Seine, 14"--Half-title verso.

Illustrated with 450 wood engravings by L.H. Brévière, A.A. Piaud, M.U. Sears, P. Verdeil and others, after Grandville.

Wood-engraved frontispiece on china paper signed, in addition to Grandville and Breviere: "Francais d."

"Notice biographique et littéraire sur Jonathan Swift, par Walter Scott": t. 1, p. [i]-xlvi. Based on Scott's Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

Local Notes:

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2009.

Cited in:

Library of Peter A. Wick [catalog], 136; 137; 138

Carteret, L. Trésor, 1801-1875, III, 578-580

Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s., VII, 717-718

Ray, G.N. Art of the French illus. book, 192

Related Work:

Scott, Walter, 1771-1832. Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

OCLC:

37256992