Gulliver's Travels

by Jonathan Swift

Original Illustrations by Frank Jennens,

Bruce Publishing, Purnell, c1950s, full colour frontispiece, 8 black and white illustrated plates, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, chips, small tears and creasing to edges and corners, (see photographs)

"Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous. His subsequent encounters - with the crude giants of Brobdingnag, the philosophical Houyhnhnms and the brutish Yahoos - give Gulliver new, bitter insights into human behaviour. Swift's savage satire view mankind in a distorted hall of mirrors as a diminished, magnified and finally bestial species, presenting us with an uncompromising reflection of ourselves."