Gulliver's Travels / by Jonathan Swift ; adapted for the young by W. B. Scott ; illustrated by A. E. Jackson.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
07/4039
Author
Imprint
London; New York: Ernest Nister ; E.P. Dutton & Co., [1911?]
Physical Description
332 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 22 cm.
General Note
Chromolithographic plates and half tone text illustrations.
Half title with ship motif.
Dated from examination of styles and techniques used and other libraries' records.
Printed in Bavaria.
Binding Note
Blue boards with guilt lettering on front board with large illustration of Gulliver holding a ship in his arms. Flourish of a wave below and decorative device under the title above. Guilt lettering and illustration on spine. Spine: title, author, illustrator and publisher with two men in cone hats conversing under backdrop of patterned fruit trees. All in gilt. Patterned endpapers, including small characters in monochrome.
Subject
Illustrated books
18th-century fiction
18th-century fiction
Contributors
Albert Edward Jackson, illustrator
Ernest Nister, publisher
E.P Dutton and Co. (New York), publisher
Ernest Nister, publisher
E.P Dutton and Co. (New York), publisher
