Item
Fables By Mr. Gay
- Title
- en_US Fables By Mr. Gay
- Description
- en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
- en_US Second edition
- en_US John Gay
- Creator
- en_US Gay, John See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Gravelot, Hubert François
- Date
- 2016-01-25T16:49:35Z
- en_US 2000-08
- en_US 1728
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T16:49:35Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1728
- Abstract
- en_US I had just finished cataloguing several Gay editions when I received an offer from Edward Pollack for a set of two second editions, one each of the two volumes of Gay's fables. I am delighted to have this very good copy, marred only by a hole at the top of the spine. See my remarks on the fourth edition of 1733. I would add to my commendations there that of the dynamic illustration of The tame Stag (49). The final pages were missing in that edition. They are here. Fable XXI is not misprinted. The paper here is very robust. There are a couple of pencillings and one or two tears and chips along the way. Now can I work my way all the way back to a first edition? Someone wrote Plates by Bewick on the front endpaper. I do not think his career began for another generation.
- Identifier
- en_US 3558 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
- en_US London
- Subject
- en_US PR3473 .F3 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