Item
Fables by the Late Mr Gay In One Volume Complete
- Title
- en_US Fables by the Late Mr Gay In One Volume Complete
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US By the Late Mr. Gay
- Creator
- en_US Gay, John See all items with this value
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:50:59Z
- en_US 2000-09
- en_US 1772
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:50:59Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1772
- Abstract
- en_US Bodemann #110.8. Bodemann identifies the new engraver as James Taylor. These seem to be imitations of earlier themes established for Gay's fables in the early editions, especially by Wootton and Kent. See my editions of 1727, 1733, 1742, 1753, 1757, and 1783. The latter seems to copy this edition, using the same approach of two illustrations per page and the same motifs established here. I think the frontispiece (grave monument of Gay?) is lacking here. Bodemann comments cryptically that this approach of two illustrations per page holds except for one exception. The exception is for Fable 50 facing 134. The illustration for the first fable had been paired with an illustration for the introduction, and thus the numbering was keyed from there on out to odd numbers rather than evens, and there was one number left for the fiftieth fable. Unfortunately the covers of this little book are separating.
- Identifier
- en_US 3839 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US W. Strahan ... [etc.]
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PR3473 .F3 1772 See all items with this value
- en_US John 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