Travels into Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver. First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships now universally known as Gulliver’s Travels. First published in London on the 28th of October 1726. Quarter cloth over paper boards, title in gilt to front cover and on spine. Housed in slipcase.

Image of Gulliver by P.J Lynch (60/300) loosely inserted.

Within weeks, at a speed impressive even in our interconnected world, the Travels spawned the first examples of the many thousands of abridgements, sequels, adaptations and translations that has continued to this day. Swift was troubled by the numerous changes and errors that had crept into the first London edition, declaring ‘I do hardly know my own work.’

Lilliput Press reproduces the George Faulkner printing first published in Dublin in 1735, supported by an impressive list of subscribers, complete with Swift’s own corrections and amendments.

It is introduced by general editor Brendan Twomey with a further essay by Declan Kiberd.