FABLES. With A Life of the Author, and embellished with…

FABLES. With A Life of the Author, and embellished with a Plate to each Fable. by GAY, John. < >

FABLES. With A Life of the Author, and embellished with a Plate to each Fable.

London.F.& C. Rivington. B.& B. White. T. Longman. B. Law & Son. GG & J Robinson. T. Cadell. S. Bladon. R. Baldwin. J. Sewell. J. Jloh 1793. [iii], xvi, [1], 2-256pp. Frontispiece, title vignette and 67 oval engravings. Full calf gilt with gilt decoration to the panels and a red gilt label. Octavo. Binding a little rubbed; spine just splitting a base. hinges cracking; spotting to frontispiece; bookplate of William Hopetown Carnegie, Earl of Southesk to front paste-down endpaper, with presentation inscription to the same dated 1800; inner edge of front free endpaper a little creased; else a very good, clean copy.Roscoe A175[6]. Illustrations by William Blake, William Skelton, G Grainger and others.

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