Gulliver's Travels (Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World)

Two editions are collected and both should be named. (1) The Motte London 1726 first (Teerink A) is the first edition and first appearance in print — the census is right about publisher, city and year, wrong about which issue is first (A, not AA). (2) The Faulkner Dublin 1735 Works, Volume III, is the FIRST EDITION OF SWIFT'S OWN CORRECTED TEXT and is separately and seriously collected — Motte had cut and softened passages he judged politically dangerous, and Faulkner, working from an annotated copy supplied by "a friend of the author" (generally identified as Charles Ford), restored over 500 corrections and more than 50 passages absent from or expanded beyond Motte. The 1735 volume prints the "Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousin Sympson" complaining of Motte's alterations ("I do hardly know mine own work"). Many textual scholars treat the 1735 Faulkner as the editio princeps of the text; bibliographically the 1726 Motte remains the first edition of the book. Collect Motte for priority, Faulkner for the text — never let a 1735 Faulkner be sold or catalogued as "the first edition" without that distinction, and never let a Motte be called textually authoritative.