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Fables: with a Life of the Author and Embellished with Seventy Plates
by John Gay, William Blake engravings
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/None
- Seller
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Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Very good copy of the first edition of Gay's Fables with the William Blake engravings.
First issue of the Stockdale edition, distinguished by the use of the long "s" throughout the text, two volumes bound in one.
Complete with the "Gay Monument" frontispiece, two engraved title-pages with vignettes, and 68 engraved plates
With the 12 plates etched and engraved by William Blake in his inimitable style (Vol. 1: page 1, 29, 59, 73, 99, 109, 125, 133, 181; Vol. 2: page 1, 105, 181). Blake had launched his own career publishing The Book of Thel and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by this time, and started taking on commercial book illustrating and engraving jobs such as Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories from Real Life (1791) and Fables (1793).
Plates newly engraved by Blake, William Grainger, Philip Audinet, Peter Mazell, William Skelton, Lovegrove, Wilson and Cook after original designs by John Wootton, William Kent and Hubert Francois Gravelot from the 1729-1747 editions.
With the List of Subscribers and one page advertisement in rear. Blake's name is listed alongside the other engravers Philip Audinet, Peter Mazell and William Skelton.
Large octavo size, in three-quarter red morocco with some scuffing to spine and corners, five raised bands, dark green leather title label and gilt tooling on spine, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., some scattered spotting to text and plates.
In a fine binding by Zaehnsdorf (1907) with the bookplate of John Ingleby Jefferson, Standard House, Northallerton, Yorkshire, on front endpaper.
First issue of the Stockdale edition, distinguished by the use of the long "s" throughout the text, two volumes bound in one.
Complete with the "Gay Monument" frontispiece, two engraved title-pages with vignettes, and 68 engraved plates
With the 12 plates etched and engraved by William Blake in his inimitable style (Vol. 1: page 1, 29, 59, 73, 99, 109, 125, 133, 181; Vol. 2: page 1, 105, 181). Blake had launched his own career publishing The Book of Thel and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by this time, and started taking on commercial book illustrating and engraving jobs such as Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories from Real Life (1791) and Fables (1793).
Plates newly engraved by Blake, William Grainger, Philip Audinet, Peter Mazell, William Skelton, Lovegrove, Wilson and Cook after original designs by John Wootton, William Kent and Hubert Francois Gravelot from the 1729-1747 editions.
With the List of Subscribers and one page advertisement in rear. Blake's name is listed alongside the other engravers Philip Audinet, Peter Mazell and William Skelton.
Large octavo size, in three-quarter red morocco with some scuffing to spine and corners, five raised bands, dark green leather title label and gilt tooling on spine, marbled boards and endpapers, t.e.g., some scattered spotting to text and plates.
In a fine binding by Zaehnsdorf (1907) with the bookplate of John Ingleby Jefferson, Standard House, Northallerton, Yorkshire, on front endpaper.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Florilegius
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Flo260
- Title
- Fables
- Author
- John Gay, William Blake engravings
- Illustrator
- William Blake, John Wootton, William Kent, Hubert Gravelot, William Granger, Philip Audinet, Peter Mazell, William Skelton, Love
- Format/Binding
- Red leather and marble boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- John Stockdale, Piccadilly
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1793
- Pages
- xi, 225, vii, 187
- Size
- Octavo, 26 x 16.5cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- William Blake, John Wootton, William Kent, Hubert Gravelot, William Granger, Philip Audinet, Peter Mazell, John Gay, Fables, Stockdale, engraving, etching, copperplate, book illustration, Georgian
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Florilegius
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Florilegius
Biblio member since 2019
Tokyo, Tokyo
About Florilegius
Tokyo-based bookseller specializing in European illustrated books from the 18th to 19th century, mainly botanical, zoological, costume and travel. Also Japanese ukiyo-e and woodblock botanicals, flower arrangement, etc.
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