Search Results: fables in two parts by the by john gay

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-06-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. New.

Hardback. New.

Printed for John Bell, London: 1793., 1793 167 p. Foxed. 165mm. Leather backed stipple decorated leather boards. Leather spine label misplaced. Loss on spine. John Gay (1685-1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. In 1727 he wrote for six year old Prince William, later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he naturally hoped to gain some preferment, although he has much to say in them of the servility of courtiers and the vanity of court honours. He was offered the situation of gentleman-usher to the Princess Louisa, who was also still a child. He refused this offer, which all his friends seem to have regarded (without much apparent reason) an indignity. Scarce. An unusual and very scarce little edition. POETRY BX 2 0.0. Hardcover. Very Good.

Didot-Baudry's, 1813. Esemplare ben conservato con rilegatura d'epoca 1813/1858, pagg. del I vol. ingiallite dal tempo.Vol. in 16°. Vetrsin4.

1797. York, Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1797. Small8vo. Spine gilt, but somewhat worn. Engraved frontispiece. VII,252 pp. With 50+16 (nearly half-page) and 35 smaller fine woodengravings by Thomas Bewick. Internally clean and fine, printed on good paper.

London: Sold by J. James, M. Cooper, A. Millard, R. Dursley, W. Pennyman, T. Jobson, S. Bland, and E. Midwinter, 1777. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo. [8], 195pp., illustrated with an engraved frontispiece plate. Contemporary speckled calf, gilt spine with dark red titling label. Contemporary small owner's name in ink in front fly leaf. Modest wear to the edges of the boards and corners, small tear at bottom edge of front cover, endpapers lightly toned at the edges of the margins, about near fine. A handsome, bright copy of the scarce 1777 printing. *OCLC* locates only three copies.

T. Wilson and R. Spence. York. 1806. 12mo.. pp. 252. Frontispiece engraved by J. BEILBY, 67 cuts and 39 tail-pieces by THOMAS BEWICK. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards, scattered marginal foxing and some brown markings, one leaf with a small marginal tear in the fore-edge margin with loss, not affecting text.