Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.

Voyages de Gulliver. Seconde edition. (Paris : Chez Gabriel Martin : Hyppolite-Louis Guerin : Dans la boutique de la V. Coustelier, chés Jacques Guerin, 1727)

The Monash Rare Books Collection was formed in 1962 when a collection of books by and about Jonathan Swift was purchased from David Woolley, a local book collector and Swift scholar. We now have one of the finest collections of Swift material in the world. David Woolley edited The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift in four volumes. Sadly, David died recently in Perth, W.A. on October 27, 2005. He donated to Monash Rare Books Collection an engraved portrait of Swift done in Dublin in 1743 from the painting by Francis Bindon (1739) which hangs in St. Patrick’s Church, where Swift was Dean.

The French translation of Gulliver's travels is open at an illustration of Gulliver fleeing through the wheat field in Brobdingnag.

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