Fables by John Gay

Title

en_US Fables by John 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

Contributor

en_US Blake, William

Date

2016-01-25T16:08:37Z

en_US 1995-03

en_US 1793

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:08:37Z

Date Issued

en_US 1793

Abstract

en_US I have hoped for this book since I saw it described in Hobbs. Actually this edition (the one described in Hobbs on 80-81) seems to be derivative from an edition done for Stockdale in the same year. Perhaps the page numbers I find on 117 in Bentley and Nurmi's A Blake Bibliography (1964) correspond to the Stockdale edition rather than to this one. The comment there also says that Blake signed each of his engravings, and I can find no signatures here. I have just checked Blake's work with the illustrations found in my editions of 1727/38, 1757, 1783, and 1801. Blake certainly was in the tradition, as Hobbs says! He is closest to the 1783 edition. I think Blake's best works here are I 1 The Shepherd and the Philosopher, I 22 The Goat Without a Beard, and II 16 The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earth-Worm. The illustrations here are landscape ovals two to a page before a pair of fables. Sometimes he reminds me of Gorey. This is a treasure of a book, well bound and well preserved!

Identifier

en_US 2034 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77595

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed by Darton & Harvey for F. & C. Rivington et al

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR3473.F3 1793b 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