Gulliver's Travels (The 100 Greatest Books of All Time)

326 pp. 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Illustrations by Charles Edmund Brock. Swift's famous satirical novel, playing on the hackneyed travelers tale popular in fiction at the time. It is an early example of science fiction, and has been adapted to film several times.