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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!

London: G & J Robinson; R Baldwin; J Sewell; I Johnson; et al, 1820. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾-6¾" tall. ND. [1820-WorldCat] Attractively illustrated edition of the Fables, with unusual title page portrait of Gay. Occasional minor foxing, but in general all is in VG clean and bright internal order. Engravings are generally crisp and well-inked. Marbled endpapers, split at hinges but boards holding well. Full leather, well worn to edges. Titlepiece missing from spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 16mo. xvi, 228pp.

London: G & J Robinson; R Baldwin; J Sewell; I Johnson; et al, 1820. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo-over 5¾-6¾" tall. ND. [1820-WorldCat] Attractively illustrated edition of the Fables, with unusual title page portrait of Gay. Occasional minor foxing, but in general all is in VG clean and bright internal order. Engravings are generally crisp and well-inked. Marbled endpapers, split at hinges but boards holding well. Full leather, well worn to edges. Titlepiece missing from spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 16mo. xvi, 228pp.

Many illus., 6 x 3.5", gilt-lettered brown buckram backed original leather, 192pp, new spine a bit rubbed, old leather worn and scraped, forecorners bumped and chipped, bookplate of A. Bleecker Banks (twice mayor of Albany) inside front cover, blindstamp of book binder on rear blank, pp toned a bit with some very light yellowing but still a nice copy; a nice, tight copy.

Engravings, 6.5 x 4", mottled calf, gilt ruled spine, 239pp. Covers slightly warped, edges worn, spine sunned and outer hinges starting, lacks spine label, bookplate (Carroll Alton Means), first and last few pages toned and soiled, scattered foxing, minor worming else good to very good condition. Textblock tight. Some of the fables: "The Elephant And The Bookseller", "The Painter Who Pleased Nobody And Every-Body", "The Ant In Office", "The Degenerate Bees". SCARCE early edition.