NMLP P-038072 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19
Gulliver's Travels (Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World)
Jonathan Swift · Benjamin Motte, London · 1726
No book-club edition exists for a 1726 imprint. Documented reprint tells: (1) any Dublin 1726/1727 or Motte 1727 "second/third edition" title-page statement rules out the first issue; (2) the overwhelming majority of donated Gullivers are 19th- and 20th-century illustrated children's abridgments (Rackham, Robinson, Dulac and successors) — these are "first thus" at best; (3) Limited Editions Club / Heritage Press and Folio Society issues carry a modern colophon or slipcase and are printed on modern paper; (4) Everyman's Library and school-text editions are cloth-bound with 19th/20th-century imprints on the title-page verso. A genuine Motte 1726 has no copyright page at all — identification runs through the title-page imprint, the portrait state, and the four text points above.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-038072 for "Gulliver's Travels (Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World)" by Jonathan Swift (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-038072, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).