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Author: john gay Title: gays fables in one volume complete First edition: true
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  • Publisher: Barre, Massachusetts: Printed for the members of Imprint Society,
  • Format: Hardcover
(1970). First edition thus: one of 1950 numbered copies SIGNED by illustrator Tyler. Preface by Peter A. Tasch. Small quarto. Tiny, faint smudge to front, else fine, in russet cloth with printed spine label over illustrated boards; housed in a sturdy, illustrated paper-over-boards slipcase, which shows the residue from the removal of a spine label, but that is otherwise fine. Both sets of verse fables penned by the 18th century British poet and dramatist, beautifully printed in black with red titles, and accompanied by 66 wood-engravings done by Gillian Lewis Tyler, printed in black or red. 234 pages, plus colophon. Superb.
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  • Publisher: J. Buckland, W. Strahan, London
  • Date published: 1783
  • Format: Hardcover
16mo, full sheep, later spine rebacking, green endpapers. Gay's fables made him famous before his "Beggar's Opera". No engravings in this copy. Ex libris Lee Merton Watson. ESTCT13861
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Thomas J. Joyce And Company (U.S.A.)
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  • Publisher: London : printed for J. Buckland, J. F. and C. Rivington, B. and B. White, T. Longman, B. Law T. Carnan, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H. L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith. J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, G. and T. Wilkie, and E. Newbery
  • Date published: 1788
  • Format: Hardcover
Poor copy in the original leather boards; wear and tear as with age. Both boards detached. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish.Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; viii, 232 pages : ill. Subjects; Fables, English. Fables, English ; Early works to 1800. Fables, English ; Early works to 1800. Genres; Fables - England - 1788. Poems. 1 Kg.
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MW Books Ltd. (Ireland)
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  • Publisher: London : printed for J. Buckland, J. F. and C. Rivington, B. and B. White, T. Longman, B. Law T. Carnan, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H. L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith. J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, G. and T. Wilkie, and E. Newbery
  • Date published: 1788
  • Format: Hardcover
Poor copy in the original leather boards; wear and tear as with age. Both boards detached. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish.Includes previous owner's inscription. Physical description; viii, 232 pages : ill. Subjects; Fables, English. Fables, English ; Early works to 1800. Fables, English ; Early works to 1800. Genres; Fables - England - 1788. Poems. 1 Kg.
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MW Books (U.S.A.)
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  • Publisher: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, Philadelphia, [PA]
  • Date published: 1808
  • Format: Hardcover
15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365.
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  • Publisher: W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and J.M. Mozley and Co, London
  • Date published: 1792
  • Format: Hardcover
First Edition. 4 x 7in. [vi.] 215pp. Bound in recent full polished calf. Gilt titling and ornamentation. 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers. New endpapers, lacking the original blanks. Illustrated with engravings on wood preceding each fable. Though several institutional records suspect Thomas Bewick to be the illustrator, we believe the illustrator to be a different artist, among several of lesser repute commissioned to emulate Bewick's engravings after their initial commercial success. A scarce edition, with only one copy held institutionally. NEAR FINE. The title page with former owner names of the period at the topmost, a hint of darkening to the margins of the title page, otherwise is Fine having been exceptionally well maintained. The text-block is bright and completely clean and the handsome modern binding remains crisp and new. As pictured.
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North Books: Used & Rare (U.S.A.)
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