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The Voyages of Lemuel Gulliver. SWIFT (Dean / Jonathan).

£125.00

THE BRIGHTWELL MANOR COPY

To Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

Illustrated by Edward Bawden.

First edition. 8vo. [217 x 143 x 22 mm]. xx, [1]f, 153 pp. Publisher's quarter bound red cloth, marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed red, plain endpapers, in original unclipped dust jacket. (Very good condition, the binding square and firm, minimal wear at the top of the dust jacket and some soiling to spine and the rear cover, otherwise an attractive copy). [ebc8822]

London: The Folio Society, 1948

The contents very clean with bright illustrations by Edward Bawden.

Small inscription to front pastedown in pink ink reading "W. C. Inge, Brightwell Manor, 19-vii-54". William Craufurd Inge (1906-2001) was the eldest child of William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), an author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was widely known by his title as Dean Inge and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Inge bought Brightwell Manor in Oxfordshire in 1933 where he spent his later life until his death in 1954. The Grade II listed country house is now owned by the former British prime minister Boris Johnson.

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THE BRIGHTWELL MANOR COPY

To Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

Illustrated by Edward Bawden.

First edition. 8vo. [217 x 143 x 22 mm]. xx, [1]f, 153 pp. Publisher's quarter bound red cloth, marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed red, plain endpapers, in original unclipped dust jacket. (Very good condition, the binding square and firm, minimal wear at the top of the dust jacket and some soiling to spine and the rear cover, otherwise an attractive copy). [ebc8822]

London: The Folio Society, 1948

The contents very clean with bright illustrations by Edward Bawden.

Small inscription to front pastedown in pink ink reading "W. C. Inge, Brightwell Manor, 19-vii-54". William Craufurd Inge (1906-2001) was the eldest child of William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), an author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was widely known by his title as Dean Inge and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Inge bought Brightwell Manor in Oxfordshire in 1933 where he spent his later life until his death in 1954. The Grade II listed country house is now owned by the former British prime minister Boris Johnson.

Stock no. ebc8822

THE BRIGHTWELL MANOR COPY

To Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

Illustrated by Edward Bawden.

First edition. 8vo. [217 x 143 x 22 mm]. xx, [1]f, 153 pp. Publisher's quarter bound red cloth, marbled boards, the spine lettered in gilt, top edge dyed red, plain endpapers, in original unclipped dust jacket. (Very good condition, the binding square and firm, minimal wear at the top of the dust jacket and some soiling to spine and the rear cover, otherwise an attractive copy). [ebc8822]

London: The Folio Society, 1948

The contents very clean with bright illustrations by Edward Bawden.

Small inscription to front pastedown in pink ink reading "W. C. Inge, Brightwell Manor, 19-vii-54". William Craufurd Inge (1906-2001) was the eldest child of William Ralph Inge (1860-1954), an author, Anglican priest, professor of divinity at Cambridge and dean of St Paul's Cathedral. He was widely known by his title as Dean Inge and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. Inge bought Brightwell Manor in Oxfordshire in 1933 where he spent his later life until his death in 1954. The Grade II listed country house is now owned by the former British prime minister Boris Johnson.

Stock no. ebc8822