at the Middle-Temple-Gate. M DCC XXVI. _8vo, four parts in two volumes,
green levant morocco, gilt back, side borders in floral and bird
design, doubled with red morocco, floral border, red figured silk
guards, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery._
Presumably the second edition. One of the three large paper copies on
record, a second being in the British Museum. This one measures 9 by
5-3/8 inches, and besides the six maps, has a portrait of Gulliver
without the inscription around the oval. Instead of two lines in Latin
beneath, the legend is "Captain Lemuel Gulliver, of Redriff AEtat. suae
58."
The two title-pages of Volume I appear to be the same as in the
preceding edition, but in Volume II "Glubbdubdrib" has one final "b"
instead of two, and "Vol. II." is omitted. The type of "World" is
heavier faced in this edition. The text is reset; ornaments, use of
type, and spelling are different. In the Contents of Volume II,
"Pirates" in Chapter I is here spelled "Pyrates." Page 74 of Part III is
misprinted 44 in this edition, and not in the preceding; but the
misprint in the running headline on page 165, Part IV, is here corrected
to "_the_ Houyhnhmns." "Glubbdubdrib" is spelled without the final "b"
in the text of both editions, except at the head of Chapter I, in the
preceding, which would point to the final "bb" on the title of Volume II
as a misprint corrected in the present edition.
In both editions Chapter VII of Part III is misprinted Chapter V. Part
III of the present edition contains 155 pages, whereas the previous
edition contains 154 and ends with a different signature.
Collation: I. Title, A1 (verso blank). Contents, A2 (verso blank). "The
Publisher to the Reader," signed Richard Sympson, A3-A5 (verso blank).
Title of Part I, 1726, with the same floral ornament as in the preceding
edition, A6 (verso blank). Contents, A7-A8. Pages i-xvi. Text of Part I,
B1-L2, in eights. Pages 1-148.