Presumably the fourth edition. The pagination of the two parts in each volume is continuous, and Plates II and VI, preceding Parts II and IV, respectively, are both numbered Page I, as though made for the previous editions, in which those parts have a separate pagination.
The title of Volume II follows line for line that of the edition No. I preceding, with "Glubbdubdribb" spelled with two final "b's," but the entire work is reset. As in the other two editions, Chapter VII of Part III is misprinted V.
Portrait by Sturt and Sheppard, and six maps.
Collation: I. Title, A1 (verso blank). Contents, A2 recto. "The Publisher to the Reader," A2 verso-A4. Pages i-viii. Title of Part I, 1726, A5 (verso blank). Contents, A6. Text of Part I, A7-K8, in eights. Title of Part II, 1726, L1 (verso blank). [In this copy misbound after Contents.] Contents, L2-L3. "Plate II, Part II, Page 1," L4 (recto blank). Text of Part II, M1-Y1. Pages 1-148, four leaves, and 149-310; 68, 165, 168-169, 172-173, and 176-177 misprinted 66, 164, 167-168, 171-172, and 175-176; 178 and 179 reversed; 180, 213, 216-217 misprinted 179, 113, 116-117; 220-221, 224-225, and 228 misprinted 120-121, 124-125, and 128.
II. Title, A1 (verso blank). Contents, A2-A3. Plate III, A4 (verso blank). Part III, B1-L5. Title of Part IV, M1 (verso blank). Contents, M2-M4. Part IV, M5-Z8 and Aa1-Aa8 (verso blank). Pages 1-154, four leaves, and 155-353.
SWIFT, Jonathan.—(I.) Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, Firſt a Surgeon, and then a Captain of ſeveral Ships. To which are prefix'd, Several Copies of Verses Expla-planatory and Commendatory; never before printed. Vol. I. The Second Edition. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleet-ſtreet. M dcc xxvii. (II.) Travels into several Remote Nations of the World. By Captain Lemuel Gulliver. Part III. A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnag and Japan. Part IV. A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms. Vol. II. The Second Edition, Corrected. London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, at the Middle-Temple-Gate. M DCC XX VII. 8vo, two volumes, red levant morocco, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
Portrait of Gulliver by Sturt and Sheppard, and six maps.
The present copy contains two more leaves than the one in the British Museum; viz., "The Words of the King of Brobdingnag," following b4.
This edition contains twelve leaves of preliminary matter not found in previous editions.
Collation: I. Title, a1 (verso blank). "To Quinbus Flestrin the Man-Mountain. An Ode. By Titly Tit, Eſq; Poet Laureat to his Majeſty of Lilliput. Tranſlated into Engliſh," a2-a3 "The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch for the Loſs of Grildrig. A Pastoral," in verse, a4-a6 recto. "To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, The Grateful Address of the Unhappy Houyhnhnms, now in Slavery and Bondage in England," a6 verso-a7. "Mary Gulliver to Capt. Lemuel Gulliver; an Epistle," in verse, b1-b4. "The Words of the King of Brobdingnag, As he held Captain Gulliver between his Finger and Thumb for the Inſpection of the Sages and Learned Men of the Court," *1 and A1. Contents of Parts, A2 recto. "The Publisher to the Reader," A2 verso-A4. Title of Part I, A5 recto. Contents of Chapters, A5 verso-A6. Pages i-xii. Part I, A7-K8. Pages 1-148.