Thinks-I-To-Myself & Gulliver's Travels, Edward Nares & Jonathan Swift

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Thinks-I-To-Myself & Gulliver's Travels, Edward Nares & Jonathan Swift

Name: Thinks-I-To-Myself & Gulliver's Travels, Edward Nares & Jonathan Swift
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Publication: London, J. F. Dove, [n.d., c. 1820s]

Formatting: 12mo, pp. [various].

Condition Report: Very Good. The contemporary half-calf binding presents exceptionally well, maintaining deep colour and unoxidised gilt tooling to the spine compartments. The joints are uncracked, the hinges are entirely firm, and the text block is square and secure. There is some minor rubbing to the leather extremities and light edge-wear to the marbled boards. The pages exhibit scattered foxing, primarily concentrated around the engraved frontispiece and preliminary leaves, while the main body of the text remains clean and highly legible. A handsome, sturdy example.

Catalogue Note: This volume is a custom contemporary 'sammelband', uniting two separate publications into a single, bespoke book. It brings together Edward Nares's Thinks-I-To-Myself and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. The text was printed and sold by J. F. Dove of St. John's Square, London, likely as part of Dove's English Classics series.

The binding is a charming example of nineteenth-century craftsmanship, featuring calf leather neatly ruled in gilt and blind-stamped with floral and sunburst motifs on the spine.

While neither text is a first edition, the preface to Thinks-I-To-Myself notes that a ninth edition was called for within nine months of the first publication, the combination of these specific works in such an attractive, unsophisticated contemporary binding offers a unique artifact of historic reading habits and private libraries.

A wonderful nineteenth-century pairing of two brilliant social satires. Edward Nares's Thinks-I-To-Myself is a delightful, meandering comic novel that skewers the hypocrisies of Georgian high society, following a narrator who constantly juxtaposes what people say with what they actually think. It is bound here with Jonathan Swift’s masterpiece, Gulliver’s Travels, the ultimate biting critique of human nature, politics, and the absurdity of the modern world. Together, they form a perfect encapsulation of classic English wit.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Edward Nares & Jonathan Swift

Book Publisher: J. F. Dove

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Fiction

Genre: Humour Fiction

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Book Binding: Hardcover (Contemporary Half Calf)

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Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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