Voyages de Gulliver dans des contrees lointaines
By: par Swift ; edition illustree par Grandville ; traduction nouvelle
Contributors: Grandville, J. J., 1803-1847, illustrator, binding designer; Breviere, Louis Henri, 1797-1869, wood-engraver; Piaud, Antoine Alphee, active 1837-1866, wood-engraver; Sears, Matthew Urlwin, b. approximately 1800, wood-engraver; Verdeil, Pierre, 1812-, wood-engraver; Francʹais, Louis, 1814-1897, delineator; Boutigny, binder; Scott, Walter, 1771-1832; Rudd, Eric, seller; Fournier (Firm); Furne (Firm); Imprimerie de H. Fournier et Cie (Paris, France)
Publisher: H. Fournier aine, editeur, rue de Seine, 16; Furne et cie., libraires-editeurs, rue Saint-Andre-des-Arts, 55
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Imaginary Voyages; Travelers; Lemuel Gulliver (Fictitious character); Fiction; Early works to 1800; Biography; English fiction; Translations into French; Irish authors
Work titles: Gulliver's travels
Notes: Error in paging, t. 1: nos. l-lix omitted.

"Imprimerie de H. Fournier et comp., rue de Seine, 14"--Half-title verso.

Illustrated with 450 wood engravings by L.H. Breviere, A.A. Piaud, M.U. Sears, P. Verdeil and others, after Grandville.

Wood-engraved frontispiece on china paper signed, in addition to Grandville and Breviere: "Francais d."

"Notice biographique et litteraire sur Jonathan Swift, par Walter Scott": t. 1, p. [i]-xlvi. Based on Scott's Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

Library of Peter A. Wick [catalog], 136; 137; 138

Carteret, L. Tresor, 1801-1875, III, 578-580

Vicaire, G. Livres du 19. s., VII, 717-718

Ray, G.N. Art of the French illus. book, 192

Purchased, out of funds from the Harris Fund, from : Eric Rudd, 20150301; $900.00.

Text translated from English to French.

Catalogued 20160126 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy quarter-bound in marbled papers & red leather over boards. Binding includes gilt tooling at boarder between marbled covers and leather spine, gold decorative devices on spine, and spine title in gilt. Binding features raised bands. Endpapers decorated. V.1 frontispiece tissue absent. Verso of [v.1] front flyleaf and leaf opposite include annotations in pencil, including second-hand price. V.1 title page includes date of publication annotated beneath imprint, & verso includes accession number at head in pencil. Rear flyleaf verso includes annotation at head in pencil. V.2 includes annotations in pencil at leaf opposite front flyleaf verso & rear flyleaf verso, & accession number in pencil at head of title page verso. Printed on wove papers, with v.1 frontispiece in China papers. Head-edges of leaves in gilt.
Table of contents: title: Divisional titles for each part: Tome 1: Voyages de Gulliver ; 1. ptie. Voyage a Lilliput ; Appendice au Voyage a Lilliput ; 2. ptie. Voyage a Brobdingnag; title: Tome 2: 3. ptie. Voyage a Laputa ; 4. ptie. Voyage au pays des Houyhnhnms.