Fables: With a Life of the Author

by John Gay, William Blake, Etchings

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

London: John Stockdale, 1793. First Stockdale edition, first issue with the long s throughout, and list of subscribers. xi 1 , 225; 2 , vii, 187, 1 pp. Two engraved title-pages with vignette, Gay Monument frontispiece and 68 illustrations including 12 etchings by William Blake . Later full calf polished with gilt borders, gilt decorated spines; marbled endpapers and edges. Very Good with joints expertly repaired and

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