Item
Fables by the Late Mr Gay
- Title
- en_US Fables by the Late Mr Gay
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US John Gay
- Creator
- en_US Gay, John See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T15:52:21Z
- en_US 1992-07
- en_US 1783
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T15:52:21Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1783
- Abstract
- en_US A beautiful little book. I am delighted at last to have a good edition of Gay's fables. T of C to both parts of fables is at the beginning of Volume II. The 66 excellent copper engravings come two-to-a-page facing the beginning of the first fable of the two. There is something tapestry-like about them. They are clearly in the tradition of Gravelot (and Kent and Wooton?) from 1727/38; see my 1967 William Andrews Clark reprint. But they do not include Blake's 12 engravings, which date from 1793. Compare the engravings here with the two in Hobbs' Fables (71, 81). Do not miss the dramatic mask frontispiece. I am fortunate to have found this book.
- Identifier
- en_US 1233 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PR3473 .F3 1783 v.2 See all items with this value
- en_US Gay See all items with this value
- en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value
- Type
- en_US Book, Whole
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books