Fables of John Gay; with a life of the author.... offered with The Fables of Aesop. With a life of the author...

by John Gay, Aesop

$4,500 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition

London: John Stockdale, 1793. Four volumes. Tall 8vo. Aesop: ii , lxv, 189, 2 ; ii , 248 pp.; Gay: ii , xii, 225; ii , vii, 188 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Gay, Vol. II includes the advertisement leaf following the title page and publisher's advertisement on verso of final text leaf for an edition of Barlow's Aesop and Stockdale fables of Aesop no dates noted . Engraved title page in each volume, plus 112 plates

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.