1890 Rare Edition - Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World

Author: Jonathan Swift. With copious notes and a life of the author by W. C. Taylor, LL.D.
Title: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships.
Publisher: Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, no date (1890).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 x 5.5 inches.
Pages: 484 pages.
Binding: Very good original publisher’s green cloth binding with elaborate black-stamped decoration on the cover and spine, featuring gilt lettering and floral motifs. (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Good to very good content (bright, tight, and clean, with light foxing mainly on the illustration's outer margins pages - as shown, names of previous owner on the second blank page - as shown).
Illustrations: Beautifully illustrated throughout with six detailed black-and-white engravings depicting Gulliver’s encounters with the tiny Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, and other fantastical beings. (Complete).

Estimate: (USD 175 - 250).

The book: This exquisite late 19th-century edition of Gulliver’s Travels offers a visually stunning and richly annotated presentation of Swift’s satirical masterpiece. The novel remains one of the most enduring works of English literature, blending adventure, political allegory, and sharp social critique in a captivating narrative. The story follows Gulliver’s adventures in fantastical lands such as Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of the Houyhnhnms.

The author: Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and political commentator. His Gulliver’s Travels (1726) remains one of the most celebrated works of world literature, renowned for its sharp wit, philosophical undertones, and imaginative storytelling.