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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.

1798 Luckman and Suffield leather-bound pocket volume; listed as acceptable, the hooped bark leather spine, spine ends and edges are quite worn and binding loosening; 213 pages; tan leather; inscription on front end paper; UK dealer, immediate dispatch

Hardcover without dustjacket as issued in printed slipcase; 238 pages; book is in very good condition; numbered 1561/1950 and signed by Gillian Tyler at rear; no other internal marks; slipcase has a lot of white marks on it. Foreign shipping may be extra.

27 x 18 cm. Quarto. 234pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. Illustrated with 66 wood engravings by Gillian Lewis Tayler. Limited to 1950 copies signed by the artist, of which this copy is unnumbered. Light rubbing to edges of cloth. Some soiling to the slipcase.

~Frontis and many woodcut illustrations. Convent blindstamp. Original red morocco decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas orders on request. Size: 222, (ii)pp. Pocketsize (9 x 14.5cm)

Hard covers, in slipcase. Signed by the illustrator at rear. This is number 846 of 1950 numbered copies. Slipcase slightly scuffed. Clean, tight, and unmarked. A sound and handsome copy!

(7) + 232 pages + (8) page Charles Law publisher's catalog at back, printed on light blue-green paper. John Gay (1685 - 1732) British poet and playwright; this is an illustrated edition of his fables. Approx. 4 5/8" x 7 1/4" size; bound in 20th century oatmeal linen cloth, brick-red morocco leather spine, contrasting spine title-labels, gilt, modern marbled endpapers. Spine labels in thick leather and the structure of the binding has the appearance of a skilled better-than-average amateur effort. Light rubbing and wear; very good condition.

228p half leather, faded and rubbed marbled paper-covered boards well repaired, ink blots to frontispiece and title page, pages foxed but with beautiful small detailed engravings to illustrate each fable, worn but still a nice old copy, printed by J Davison Language: English

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