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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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- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Blake William, 1757-1827, engr.Grainger, W., engr.Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engr.
- Research Call Number
- Spencer Coll. Eng. 1793