On This Day October 26

The first edition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was published in two volumes on October 26, 1726, priced at 8s. 6d. The book was an instant sensation and sold out its first run in less than a week. The novel's full title was Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships. (Swift was nervous about the reaction his satire might provoke, hence the Lemuel Gulliver pseudonym).

First edition of Gulliver's Travels

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