Fables By Mr. Gay

Title

en_US Fables By Mr. Gay

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Fourth edition

en_US John Gay

Creator

en_US Gay, John See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T16:49:29Z

en_US 1998-06

en_US 1733

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:49:29Z

Date Issued

en_US 1733

Abstract

en_US Here is a wonderful little treasure! It falls between Bodemann 110.1 (the first edition) and 110.2 (the fifth edition). It includes only the first 50 fables because the additional seventeen were first published in only 1738. This is a beautiful little book, which June got at Sotheby's sale of the Earl of Granard's library in July, '93. That may be his bookplate facing hers inside the front cover. I am particularly taken on this trip through with the dynamism of The Lady and the Wasp (VIII), the foppishness of The Monkey Who Had Seen the World (XIV), the exactitude of The Pin and the Needle (XVI), and the turbulence of The Farmer's Wife and the Raven (XXXVII) complete with broken eggs. The monkeys of XXII (The Goat without a Beard) are curiously human. Pages 189-92 are missing, including the illustration for the last fable (L). There are a number of small repairs to the paper of particular pages. Fable XXI is misprinted as Fable XIX. I wonder how many copies of this book in this edition still exist around the world.

Identifier

en_US 3539 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/78905

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR3473.F3 1733 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