Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

Title:

Gulliver's travels : volume I[-II] / Jonathan Swift, D.D. ; illustrated by Rex Whistler.

Published / Created:

London : Cresset Press, 1930.

Physical Description:

2 v. : ill., maps ; 37 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3724 .G8 1930+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BAC: British Art Center copy is number [I]. Illustrations are hand-colored. BAC copy has several pen and ink drawings by Rex Whistler.

BEIN 1998 +345: No. 135. In case.

"The foregoing text of Gulliver's Travels is that of the first large paper edition published in 1726 ... One hundred and ninety-five copies have been printed by the Oxford University Press on hand-made paper, numbered 1-195, and ten copies on roman vellum, numbered I-X ..."--Colophon.

Swift's name at head of title.

Whistler & Fuller. Rex Whistler 426

Subject Terms:

Whistler, Rex, 1905–1944 -- Pres. inscription to Elizabeth Helen Monteith Godley. | Godley, Elizabeth Helen Monteith -- Pres. inscription from Rex Whistler. | Cresset Press -- Publisher. | Etching -- Specimens -- 1930. | Etching, Colored -- Specimens -- 1930.

Contributors:

Whistler, Rex, 1905–1944, ill. | Cresset Press.