Item
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
- Date
- 2016-01-25T20:35:10Z
- en_US 2012-11
- en_US 1838
- Date Available
- 2016-01-25T20:35:10Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 1838
- Abstract
- en_US Can one get too many different editions of Gay's fables? I start to have that feeling. This edition will give some researcher a good time. The book is inscribed in 1857. Elements include a beginning T of C, listing all fifty fables of the first book and seventeen of the second book. Next is Gay's life by Johnson. Then follow the fables, each with a headpiece, almost half a page in size in this small (3¼ x 5¼) book. Many fables also feature tailpieces. Maybe the most informative comparison would be with the Gay edition I have from 1834 from Longman, Rees, Orme et al, only four years prior. These illustrations seem to follow in the tradition before Harvey. I presumed that I was finding a rerun of something I already had, but I think I was wrong.
- Identifier
- en_US 8780 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Booker and Dolman; Whittaker and Co.; Simpkin and Co.; Tegg and Son; and C. Whittingham
- en_US Chiswick, England
- Subject
- en_US PR3473.F3 1838 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