Fables. With a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates

by John Gay

$900 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: John Stockdale, 1793. First Stoockdate edition, and first edition with the Blake plates; tall 8vo 10¼ , 2 volumes in 1, xii, 225, 1 ; vii, 1 , 175, 1 ; engraved titles to each volume, engraved frontispiece and 67 fine plates, including 12 by William Blake; bound without the list of subscribers at the back of volume II; full contemporary tree calf, red morocco label on gilt decorated spine, labels slightly cracked and small chip at the bottom

• Binding: Leather

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