Gulliver revived; containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic Ocean
Subtitle: also An Account of a Voyage into the Moon [...]
Publisher: Printed for G. Kearsley
Published: 1786
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> Gulliver revived; containing singular travels, campaigns, voyages, and adventures in Russia, Iceland, Turkey, Egypt, Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean, and on the Atlantic Ocean: also An Account of a Voyage into the Moon, with many extraordinary Particulars relative to the Cooking Animal in that Planet, which are here called the Human Species, by Baron Munchausen. The fourth edition, Considerably enlarged, and ornamented with Sixteen explanatory Views, engraved from Original Designs.
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">19th-century roan-backed marbled boards, wanting two terminal leaves (pp. 169-172); sixteen engraved vignettes on five folding plates.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">‘Fourth’ edition of this iconic satire on travel liars, with two new chapters including a second lunar voyage, three new plates, and a new preface, dated 12 July 1786, mentioning the slow sale of the first edition and the success of those following, which ‘were purchased within a few days after they were printed’. See also E. Wackermann, Münchhausiana. Bibliographie der Münchhausen-Ausgaben und Münchhausiaden. Mit einem Beitrag zur Geschichte der früheren Ausgaben Münchhausiana. Stuttgart, 1969, 3.5. See Bib# 558529/Fr# 676.3 in this collection for the rare third, enlarged edition.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991018482379707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>