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Zustand: Good. 2023. No edition remarks. 141 pages. Signed by the author. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Signed with dedication from the author on first page. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.…

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First American edition. First American edition. Frontispieces engraved by David Claypoole Johnston. Illustrated titles. These plates are considered the first fantastic or "fantasy" plates published in America. 2 vols. Sm. 12mo. The adventures (or mis-adventures) of Wilkins from his life in Cornwall to his journeys and shipwrecks at sea to Africa and slavery and to the land of the flying islanders, the Glums and Gawrys. The illustrations depict these flying beings. Originally published in 1751 with illustrations by Louis Philippe Boitard. Written in imitation of "Gulliver's Travels" and "Robinson Crusoe" this romantic and imaginative work soon became very popular. Coleridge, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Sir Walter Scott and Southey were great admirers of this work. In Southey's "Curse of Kehama," his "Glendoveers "were based upon the "Gawrys." David Claypoole Johnston, engraver (1797-1865) is best known for his annual publication, "Scraps," first issued in 1830. He earned the nickname "The American Cruikshank" from his caricatures. (Fielding "Dictionary of American Painters . "). Bleiler p. 162; Sabin 58394; Shaw and Shoemaker 34637; Rhanders-Pehrson 13 " . the story of Peter Wilkins is one of the best known among the early aviation novels." Original rose cloth-backed boards, printed paper labels (worn). Cloth faded with some tears, binding rubbed, inner hinges of first volume broken, front free endpaper there lacking, shaken, a tear on p.86/7 with loss affecting 4 lines of text, some browning and staining, generally light and in the second volume. With the signature of Francis H. Hunston dated 1834 on endpaper. Brown cloth and marbled paper open end case Frontispieces engraved by David Claypoole Johnston. Illustrated titles. These plates are considered the first fantastic or "fantasy" plates published in America. 2 vols. Sm. 12mo.…