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Printed by C. Whittingham for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1801. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1801. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. Half bound in leather with paper covered boards. Front board nearly fully detached. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Moderate staining, foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible tanning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has moderate rubbing and tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to joints and ends.
Fables By the Late Mr. Gay in Two Volume by GAY, JOHN - 1757
by GAY, JOHN
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London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. And R. Tonson, J. Rivington, et al, 1757. Original full dark brown calf, gilt-framed, 5 raised bands, gilt-stamped black leather spine label. Pp. [xviii], 334. Engraved frontispiece, title-page vignette, + 67 engravings, all with plate marks. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, else interior very good and crisp. Expertly rejointed and with invisible repairs to spine ends done some time ago, covers a bit scuffed, else a very good copy. Osborne p. 567. . Full-Leather. Very Good. Octavo.
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- Keywords Poetry
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Fables by The Late Mr. Gay. In One Volume Complete
by John Gay
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Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Limted/numbered/signed. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, bound in russet cloth with paper covered boards and paper spine label. Top edge gilt. Introduction by Peter A. Tasch. Illustrated with numerous vignette wood-engravings (several full page) throughout by Gillian Lewis Tyler. Limited edition of 1,950 copies, signed and numbered on colophon page by artist, this being copy 134. A collection of over 65 tales purporting moral and political wisdom in a satirical vein similar to Dryden and Swift. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, internally unmarked copy, several very light and incidental marks to boards. Issued without dust-jacket but lacks publisher's slipcase. Very good+. .
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Fables by the Late Mr Gay; in one volume complete
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C & J Rivington etc.. Very Good. 1823. Hardcover. Very Good hardcover edition, has been rebound with new endpapers. No names or marks. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 222 pages .
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Fables By the Late Mr. John Gay. In One Volume Complete with Wood-Engravings By Gillian Lewis Tyler
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Hardback. Poor. Bewick, Thomas. London, 1821; 12m0, pp iv, 114; full calf, binding rubbed, front board loose, lacks both end papers, old ink scribbling on both the verso of the frontispiece and the back pasted end paper, some browing but also extensive soilding through use throughout, part torn out of final leaf with consequent slight loss of text; noted as "end of first part" on the last sheet but apparently complete with 50 fables; engraved frontispiece of a theatrical mask, decorated title, and with each fable decorated with a wood engravings by Thomas Bewick at the head. WAF
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