![7817 [1] website.JPG](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd894e5323b835b65867f87/1640344104634-WK1I77QJPHMX1XLK6EMJ/7817+%5B1%5D+website.JPG)
![7817 [3] website.JPG](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5fd894e5323b835b65867f87/1640344105965-UWLKPN02F68UPTW123IE/7817+%5B3%5D+website.JPG)
Fables. GAY (John).
Fables with a Life of the Author, and embellished with a Plate to each Fable.
Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 67 engraved illustrations on 34 leaves.
8vo. [231 x 145 x 35 mm]. xvi, 256pp. Bound in near contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, smooth spine divided into five panels by gilt pallets, lettered in the second, the others with a centre tool, plain endleaves, marbled edges. (A little rubbed).
London: printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, B. & B. White, T. Longman, B. Law & Son, G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H.L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith, J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd & Co, G. & T. Wilkie, & E. Newbery, 1793.
Some light foxing and soiling, and offsetting from the plates (two with short closed tears). A good copy in a handsome binding. The illustrations are copies of the 1793 Stockdale edition, re-engraved in oval form. They include 12 after designs by William Blake. The life of the author is taken from Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
Stock no. ebc7817
Fables with a Life of the Author, and embellished with a Plate to each Fable.
Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 67 engraved illustrations on 34 leaves.
8vo. [231 x 145 x 35 mm]. xvi, 256pp. Bound in near contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, smooth spine divided into five panels by gilt pallets, lettered in the second, the others with a centre tool, plain endleaves, marbled edges. (A little rubbed).
London: printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, B. & B. White, T. Longman, B. Law & Son, G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H.L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith, J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd & Co, G. & T. Wilkie, & E. Newbery, 1793.
Some light foxing and soiling, and offsetting from the plates (two with short closed tears). A good copy in a handsome binding. The illustrations are copies of the 1793 Stockdale edition, re-engraved in oval form. They include 12 after designs by William Blake. The life of the author is taken from Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
Stock no. ebc7817
Fables with a Life of the Author, and embellished with a Plate to each Fable.
Engraved frontispiece, engraved title-page and 67 engraved illustrations on 34 leaves.
8vo. [231 x 145 x 35 mm]. xvi, 256pp. Bound in near contemporary half calf, marbled paper sides, smooth spine divided into five panels by gilt pallets, lettered in the second, the others with a centre tool, plain endleaves, marbled edges. (A little rubbed).
London: printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, B. & B. White, T. Longman, B. Law & Son, G.G. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H.L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith, J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd & Co, G. & T. Wilkie, & E. Newbery, 1793.
Some light foxing and soiling, and offsetting from the plates (two with short closed tears). A good copy in a handsome binding. The illustrations are copies of the 1793 Stockdale edition, re-engraved in oval form. They include 12 after designs by William Blake. The life of the author is taken from Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
Stock no. ebc7817