Fables

by … with a life of the author by Samuel Johnson ; and embellished with a plate to each fable by John Gay

$400 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Frontispiece, engraved title-page with vignette, and 67 illustrations includign 12 after designs by William Blake on 34 leaves. 1 vols. 19th-century full tree calf, gilt spine with red leather label. Upper joint barely starting, otherwise a lovely copy. Item #252432 The illustrations are copies of the 1793 Stockdale edition, re-engraved in an oval form. Cf. Gumuchian, no. 2682. The Life of John Gay, p iii -xiv, is from Johnson's Lives of the

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