Set Reminder2022-02-26 12:00:002022-02-26 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Fine Books & Manuscripts https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/fine-books-manuscripts-21955 Our first book sale of the year features an array of items not seen on the market in over a century. Among the Americana lots crossing the block is one of the rarest and important Revolutionary War narratives, being Ethan Allen’s account of his captivity in British prisons printed in 1779.
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RACKHAM, Arthur (1867?1939), illustrator. ?? SWIFT, Jonathan. Gulliver?s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. London and New York: J.M. Dent & Co. and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1909. 8vo. 12 color?printed plates by Rackham. Original publisher?s pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers (a bit of light rubbing to joints, upper hinge tender). Second English trade edition with J.M. Dent & Co. imprint on spine. This is a reprint of the 1900 edition, with added illustrations in color and larger pages. Latimore and Haskell, pp. 32?33.