Edition details
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. Standard edition of 2011 limited edition. 17 full-page colour illustrations and 25 chapter vignettes by Peter Suart. Introduced by John Banville. Colour pattern and picture printed endpapers. Gilded top edge. Red ribbon page marker. Slipcase printed with a wrap-around colour design and picture. Three-quarter bound in green cloth title blocked on spine, textured paper front board printed with a colour picture by the artist. Slipcase printed with a wrap-around colour design and picture. 25.4x17.1cm. 288pp.
About the book
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels follows Lemuel Gulliver on a series of extraordinary voyages to unfamiliar lands. He first encounters the tiny inhabitants of Lilliput, then the giants of Brobdingnag, followed by the intellectuals of Laputa and finally the rational Houyhnhnms. Although often enjoyed as a fantasy adventure, the work is also a sharp satire of politics, science, war, pride and human nature. Swift uses each strange society to expose the absurdities of his own world, creating one of the most imaginative and enduring works of eighteenth-century literature.
