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Title
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Fables by John Gay
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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John Gay
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Creator
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Gay, John
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:35:10Z
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2012-11
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1838
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:35:10Z
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Date Issued
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1838
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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8780 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Booker and Dolman; Whittaker and Co.; Simpkin and Co.; Tegg and Son; and C. Whittingham
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Chiswick, England
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Subject
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PR3473.F3 1838
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John Gay
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole