(COLONIAL WARS) Gullivers Flight or The Man Mountain a Dream

Sale 2444 - Lot 113

Price Realized: $ 1,125

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

(COLONIAL WARS.) Gulliver's Flight: or, The Man Mountain, a Dream. Illustrated letterpress broadside, 18 x 10 inches; moderate foxing, worn on right edge with minimal loss of text, closed tear and slight chipping in illustration area. [London]: T. Ewart, circa 1762

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"A political satire on Will Prigg [i.e., William Pitt], comparing Brobdingnagians to North Americans & Lilliputians to Englishmen"--European Americana 739/138. The engraving shows Pitt floating on a cluster of bubbles titled "Pride Conceit Patriotism Popularity," "Spanish War," "North America," and others. While European Americana hypothesizes a 1739 date, Ewart was printing at the Strand from 1762 to 1765; which coincides with the Anglo-Spanish War of 1762-63 and the British involvement in the French and Indian War. Only one copy in ESTC, and one other located at the British Museum (assigning a 1762 date). None known at auction.