Gulliver’s Travels. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: Dent, 1909. First Edition Thus. Publisher’s red cloth-covered boards with elaborate gilt designs to front board and spine, decorated endpapers. A nice bright copy.

Also published in limited edition format in the same year.

The first edition to feature the magnificent illustrations of Arthur Rackham, one of the foremost figures of the Golden Age of British book illustration. His dreamlike and intricately detailed watercolour plates—including both colour and black-and-white images—bring a new dimension to Swift’s classic satire, perfectly capturing the fantastical scale and strange societies of Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and beyond.

This edition, with its striking pictorial binding, transforms the tale of Lemuel Gulliver’s travels into a visual feast, blending Rackham’s signature ethereal style with Swift’s sharp, timeless commentary on human nature.