Gulliver’s Travels, Illustrations by J.J. Grandville, Deluxe Limited Edition

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Illustrations by J.J. Grandville

Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition

Limited to 500 Hand Numbered Copies

MINT Condition – Still in the Publisher’s Shrinkwrap

This is a beautiful limited edition recreation of the 1840 illustrated edition of Gulliver’s Travels published by the Easton Press with a limitation of 500 hand number copies. The book comes with a numbered Certificate of Authenticity but the edition number is unknown as the book is in the original packaging and is still sealed.  Gulliver’s Travels is one of the most popular and well read of all classics in the Western Canon and the work of Grandville for this publication has become an integral part of the story.

The Deluxe Limited Edition measures 9.125” x 5.875” and features the usual Easton Press fineries of premium leather covers, marbled endpapers, gold gilding and gilting, built in satin bookmarks as well as:

• All of the more than 400 intricately detailed wood engravings by J.J. Grandville, the most complete set of illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels ever published
• Cowhide leather imported from Italy by Cortina Leathers of New York, New York
• Special 3-color stamping on the spine
• Beautiful marbled end sheets from a pattern created exclusively for this edition by Peggy Skycraft, Skycraft Designs, Estacada, Oregon
• Springhill opaque paper in warm white shade and eggshell texture of the original edition
• Lithography by Falcon Press, Nashville, Tennessee
• A fabric-covered slipcase
• Binding and slipcase by BindTech, Nashville, Tennessee
• Limited to 500 hand numbered editions

The books are in MINT condition and still in the original publisher’s shrinkwrap.

Stock photographs of the book and the title pages appear below. Although the thumbnails may appear digitized, you can click your mouse on the thumbnail to view the picture in the photo viewer.