Jonathan Swift W D Howells (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 1941 hardcover edition published by Books, Inc. by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, N.Y., 1941, 351 pages with over 100 illustrations (some full-page Color illustrations) by noted illustrator Louis Rhead. Quarter bound olive leather look with red spine and ornate gold pattern on front board with blue title box on spine. Good condition. The covers show some shelf / edge wear. Light staining to boards. Text block edges browning. The hinges are slightly weak, but all pages are intact. The interior pages are unmarked, but are tanned faintly scent of smoke. No jacket, possibly as issued. USPS electronic tracking number issued free of charge.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. LIGHT GRAY TEXTURED COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT, RED REINFORCED SPINE. LIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE AND FADING SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK BY RHEAD. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. BEAUTIFUL COLOR ARTWORK FRONTISPIECE. SHAKESPEARE MOST FAMOUS WORKS. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 ? 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish[1] satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin,[2] hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. Swift claimed that he wrote Gulliver's Travels "to vex the world rather than divert it". Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729). Louis John Rhead (November 6, 1857 ? July 29, 1926) was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler who was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated to the United States at the age of twenty-four. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE. LOUIS RHEAD (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. None. Illustrated cloth; over 100 illustrations by Rhead. Binding is cloth boards.