SWIFT (Jonathan).

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SWIFT (Jonathan).
Gulliver's travels in distant lands. New translation preceded by a notice by Walter Scott. Illustrations by J.-J. Grandville. Paris, Garnier frères, 1856. Large in-8, publisher's black percaline boards, large gilt and mosaic speaking iron plate on the first plate in a cold frame, gilt and mosaic travel attributes and decorative motifs on the second plate, long spine decorated in the same way, gilt edges (Engel and Schaeck). Wood-engraved general frontispiece by Brévière, printed on chine volant, four title-frontispieces and 450 wood-engraved vignettes by Grandville. New edition of Grandville's illustration, in a slightly different format and in one volume. Superb publisher's freshly mosaic-covered boards with special irons.
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