Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts

1726 [Swift, Jonathan] (1667-1745). Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver [pseud.]. 2 vols. London: Ptd. for Beng. Motte. Usually rpt. as Gulliver’s Travels. Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 1-114 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; as Gulliver’s Travels. A Facsimile Reproduction of a Large-Paper Copy of the First Edition (1726) Containing the Author’s Annotations. Delmar, NY: Scholar’s Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; Illus. Arthur Rackham. London J.M. Dent, 1899 [rpt. with additional illus. London: J.M. Dent, 1909]; as “Travels into several Remote Nations of the World.” Gulliver’s Travels & Selected Writings in Prose & Verse. Ed. John Hayward (London: Nonesuch Press, 1938), 3-292, with a Chronological Table on ix-xi, and a Note on the Text on xvi-xvii; as Gulliver’s Travels. London: Collins/New York: W.W. Norton, 1953, with the text on 23-315, Jonathan Swift by H. d. R. (5-8), an Introduction By Peter Quennell (11-17), a Note by John Hayward (21), a Chronological Table (317-318), and a Bibliography (317-318); as Swift Gulliver’s Travels: An Annotated Text with Critical Essays. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961, with the text on 1-260, Extracts from Swift’s Correspondence (263-268), Critical Essays (269-357), and a Bibliography (358-361); as Swift, Gulliver’s Travels. An Authoritative Text The Correspondence of Swift Pope’s Verses on Gulliver’s Travels Critical Essays. Ed. Robert A. Greenberg. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1970, with the text on 1-250, context essays on 251-305, criticism essays on 307-504, Jonathan Swift: A Chronology on 505-507, and a Selected Bibliography on 509-511; as Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. Illus. Fritz Eichenberg. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1976, with an uncredited frontispiece and a Publishers Preface on v-viii; Ed. Clauston Jones. New York: Bantam Books, 1971; as Gulliver's Travels: Based on the 1726 Text: Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Albert J. Rivero. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002, with Context essays (253-305), Criticism essays (307-504), Jonathan Swift: A Chronology (505-507), and Selected Bibliography (509-511); as Gulliver's Travels and Other Writings: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Context, Critical Essays. Ed. Clement Hawes, with “A Note on the Texts” by Robert J. Griffin. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004; as Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Allan Ingram. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2012; and as Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. David Womersley. Vol. 16 of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 1-444, with a “Chronology of Swift’s Life” (xi-xx), a “Chronology of Gulliver’s Travels” (xxi-xxiii), “Introduction” (xli-civ), “Long Notes” (445-565), “Textual Introduction” (627-774), and other appendices. An unusual children’s edition is Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World In Words of One Syllable. By [Mrs.] J. C. Gorham From the Original by Dean Swift. Illus. London: Cassell & Co., 1895. U.S. ed. New York: A. L. Burt, [1901?]. Part rpt. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1950 with vols. of Lilliput and Brobdingnag in lilliputian and brobdingnagian sizes. Gulliver Mickey was produced by Walt Disney in 1934, and an animated film was produced by Max Fleischer in 1939. See also the heavily illustrated The Annotated Gulliver’s Travels. Ed. Isaac Asimov. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. A spurious third volume was published as by Capt. Lemuel Gulliver [pseud.]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. Volume 3. 2 parts. London: np, 1727. Rpt. in Gulliveriana III. Comp. Jeanne K. Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1972), 1-295. DLC, PSt

Basis of an entire sub-genre of utopias in which the imaginary voyage leads to worlds peopled by beings differing physically from the human norm but usually endowed with speech and reason. Many such works include a eutopia. Here the eutopia is a land of rational horses, the Houyhnhnms. While there may be earlier examples, beginning in the late twentieth century, a number of novels and stories have been published concerning Mrs. Gulliver. See 1999 Fell and the note there.