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Fables

Title
Fables / by John Gay, with a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates.
Author
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Publication
London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1793.

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TextBy appointment only Spencer Coll. Eng. 1793Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Additional Authors
  • Blake William, 1757-1827
  • Grainger, W.
  • Skelton, William, 1763-1848
Description
2 v. plates.; 29cm. (8̕.)
Subjects
Note
  • Hoe, I, 296. Keynes: Blake, 106.
  • List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
  • Illustrations: 70 copper engravings[beta] comprising frontispiece (Gay's monument), title vignettes and 67 plates, 12 of which are by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger and others. The designs were adapted from those in earlier editions.
  • Binding, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt and jewelled, with elaborate illustrative sunken panels on covers and doublures.
Call Number
Spencer Coll. Eng. 1793
OCLC
131731711
Author
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Title
Fables / by John Gay, with a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates.
Imprint
London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1793.
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Blake William, 1757-1827, engr.
Grainger, W., engr.
Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engr.
Research Call Number
Spencer Coll. Eng. 1793
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