Gulliver's Travels (Illustrated Junior Library)

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Aldren Watson. Type: Hardback Hardcover Book in Very Good Condition with a Good Dust Jacket. Revised snd slightly abridged for readers of our times. 1977 Printing of this 1947 Edition, beautifully illustrated by Aldren Watson in color and black and white. Originally Published in 1726, Gulliver's Travels is the best-known title of Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, by Lemuel Gulliver. a satire masterpiece written in the form of a journal by Jonathan Swift(1667-1745). It is a bitter satire, a tale of the four voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a ship's surgeon. It appeals to younger reader's as a fantastic story of the Land of the Lilliput where people are 6 inches high and the Land of the Brobdingnag where the people are 60 feet high. Beneath the surface of this fantasy, is a devastating critique of human malevolence, stupidity, greed, vanity and short-sightedness. A brilliant combination of adventure, humor and philosophy. 18th century literature. Handsome binding in illustrated tan cloth with red ships. spine cloth decorated and with red title panel, in near fine condition. Illustrated endpapers. Internals are in Fine Condition----clean, unmarked, no creases, gift inscription on endpaper. . 306 pages. 8vo - over 7?" - 9?" tall. Grosset & Dunlap, New York.