Durable 1880 Rare Book - Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World. Illustrated. Series [VTXDZIb9]

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 (Description) 

Author: Lemuel Gulliver. Jonathan Swift.
Title: Travels of Lemuel Gulliver Into Several Remote Regions of the World.
Publisher: New York, The American News Company, no date (circa 1880).  
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7.5 " X 5.5 ".
Pages: viii-383 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine decorated full-cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown).
Illustrations: Complete with the 6 nice full-page illustrations.

The book: Rare and attractive American edition of Gulliver's Travels, or Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. 

The author: Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish 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, hence his common sobriquet, "Dean Swift". 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). He is regarded by the Encyclopædia Britannica as the foremost prose satirist in the English language and is less well known for his poetry. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—such as Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously. He was a master of two styles of satire, the Horatian and Juvenalian styles. His deadpan, ironic writing style, particularly in A Modest Proposal, has led to such satire being subsequently termed "Swiftian".