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[SWIFT, Jonathan (1667-1745)]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World ... by Lemuel Gulliver. London: Benj. Motte, 1726.
First edition, Teerink's 'AA' edition, an intriguing association copy of Swift’s masterpiece, inscribed by Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) to his friend the poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). Stephen, a noted author, critic and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, published a study of Swift’s life and works in 1882 in which he suggests that Gulliver's Travels ‘is one of the very few books some knowledge of which may be fairly assumed in any one who reads anything' (p.170). Stephen met Lowell, one of the Fireside Poets of New England and a staunch abolitionist, in 1863 during a visit to the United States in which he also met President Abraham Lincoln. They formed a lasting friendship that saw Lowell become godfather to Virginia Woolf. Teerink 290; Grolier, English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-2106.
2 volumes, octavo (192 x 118mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in the second state, 6 engraved plates (small repaired hole to portrait, some light spotting and waterstaining). Contemporary panelled calf, spines neatly rebacked to style (lightly scuffed). Provenance: ?Weysell (early inscription on front pastedown) – Leslie Stephen (autograph letter tipped onto front pastedown of volume one, presenting the set to:) – James Russell Lowell (inscriptions on first title of each volume recording receipt of the set from Stephen).
First edition, Teerink's 'AA' edition, an intriguing association copy of Swift’s masterpiece, inscribed by Leslie Stephen (1832-1904) to his friend the poet James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). Stephen, a noted author, critic and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, published a study of Swift’s life and works in 1882 in which he suggests that Gulliver's Travels ‘is one of the very few books some knowledge of which may be fairly assumed in any one who reads anything' (p.170). Stephen met Lowell, one of the Fireside Poets of New England and a staunch abolitionist, in 1863 during a visit to the United States in which he also met President Abraham Lincoln. They formed a lasting friendship that saw Lowell become godfather to Virginia Woolf. Teerink 290; Grolier, English 42; PMM 185; Rothschild 2104-2106.
2 volumes, octavo (192 x 118mm). Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author in the second state, 6 engraved plates (small repaired hole to portrait, some light spotting and waterstaining). Contemporary panelled calf, spines neatly rebacked to style (lightly scuffed). Provenance: ?Weysell (early inscription on front pastedown) – Leslie Stephen (autograph letter tipped onto front pastedown of volume one, presenting the set to:) – James Russell Lowell (inscriptions on first title of each volume recording receipt of the set from Stephen).
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