Fables

by the late Mr. Gay in one volume complete by Gay, John

$795 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: J. Buckland etc. , 1788. Sm. 8vo, 2 parts in one volume, viii including woodcut frontispiece , 232 pp. Frontispiece and 68 woodcuts in the text. Old polished calf rebacked and lettered in gilt, minor scrape on lower cover, generally very good. § Apparently quite a scarce version which first appeared in two volumes in 1727/28. The Stockdale edition with some plates engraved by Blake 1793 is perhaps the best known of the 18th-century editions; this

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