[GRANDVILLE] - SWIFT (Jonathan). Gulliver's travels in distant lands. Paris : Furne et Cie, H. Fournier aîné, 1838. - 2 volumes in-8, 204 x 125 : frontispiece, (2 ff.), LIX pp. misquoted LXIX, 279 pp. ; (2 ff.), 319 pp. Cherry half calf with corners, gilt fillets, smooth spine with long central piece of green calf decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons, marbled edges (period binding). One of the most beautiful books illustrated by Grandville, containing, in the first edition, a frontispiece printed on China paper, four frontispiece titles and 450 woodcut vignettes in the text or on the full page. According to Brivois, "this illustration ranks among the first in Grandville's work" (Brivois, 387). The text is preceded by a long note by Walter Scott on Swift. A good copy in a strictly contemporary binding, well preserved despite some foxing. Pages 81 to 88 in the second volume have been bound between pages 72-73.