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 John Gay

Creator

en_US Gay, John

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:09Z

en_US 2003-06

en_US 1834

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:09Z

Date Issued

en_US 1834

Abstract

en_US This is a small (3¾ x 5½) book with surprisingly clean and sharp illustrations. These landscape-formatted ovals are about 2 x 2¾ each, and there is an illustration for each fable except the very last, Aye and No. They strike me as very much after the style of Bewick. Typical illustrations seem to me to be those for The Miser and Plutus (18) and The Ravens, the Sexton, and the Earthworm (214). It also strikes me that Gay's fables in his second book are typically longer than those in the first. I had written to Georg Beran at this bookstore to voice my presumption that the book was not illustrated, and I was happy to hear that it was. This Gay edition fits between those that I have from 1826 and 1866. Bodemann lists Bewick's edition of Gay (1799 and 1806) as #166, and that may be the closest item she has to this little book. Her next edition given exclusively to Gay's fables seems to be #328, the Owen-Harvey edition done, apparently, first by Saville & Edwards in 1856 and then by Frederick Warne in 1866. The back cover has almost separated from the book.

Identifier

en_US 4599 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80253

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Printed for Longman Rees, Brown, ... [etc.],

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR3473 .F3 1834

en_US John Gay

Type

en_US Book, Whole