Fables by the Late Mr Gay

Title

en_US Fables by the Late Mr Gay

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US John Gay

Creator

en_US Gay, John

Date

2016-01-25T20:03:40Z

en_US 2010-11

en_US 1785

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:03:40Z

Date Issued

en_US 1785

Abstract

en_US Here is an apparent later printing of the Buckland, Strahan, et al edition of 1783. It uses, I believe, the same plates used there; they are different from -- and apparently copied from -- the plates used in the edition I have from Strahan, Rivington, Buckland et al of 1772 (Bodemann #110.8). Bodemann does not have separate listings for either the 1783 or this 1785 edition. Again I have found a lovely early edition of Gay for a very good price! That 1783 edition was the second volume of a two-volume set, the first volume being Gay's plays. Here there is no such indication. As there, so here the T of C to both parts of fables is at the beginning of the volume. The 66 excellent copper engravings -- generally lighter impressions here? -- come two-to-a-page facing the beginning of the first fable of the two. There is something tapestry-like about them. They are clearly in the tradition of Gravelot (and Kent and Wooton?) from 1727/38; see my 1967 William Andrews Clark reprint. But they do not include Blake's 12 engravings, which date from 1793. Compare the engravings here with the two in Hobbs' Fables (71, 81). Do not miss the dramatic mask frontispiece. I am fortunate to have found this book. Inscribed in 1791. The covers are beginning to separate from the spine.

Identifier

en_US Bodemann identifier cf. 110.8

en_US 7107 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82384

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US J. Buckland, W. Strahan, et al.

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR3473 .F3 1785

en_US Gay

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole