Fables. With a life of the Author and embellished with 70 Plates

by John. Blake Gay, William

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First edition

London: John Stockdale, 1793. 2 vols., royal 8vo, xi, 225; vii, 187, 1, advertisement pp. Engraved title to each part, frontispiece to vol. I, and 70 plates including 12 by Blake. Full contemporary calf rebacked, a bit scuffed and untidy but quite sound, internally good despite the usual browning and offsetting. § First edition with Blake’s plates. The plates in this famous edition are free adaptations from the designs of Kent, Wootton, and Gravelot, who

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