The Fables of Mr. John Gay, Complete in Two Parts

Title

en_US The Fables of Mr. John Gay, Complete in Two Parts

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Revised for this publication by Constance Meaney.

Creator

en_US Gay, John

Contributor

en_US Bewick, Thomas

Date

2016-01-25T19:38:02Z

en_US 2005-03

en_US 1806

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:38:02Z

Date Issued

en_US 1806

Abstract

en_US Here is a great find discovered as I was settling up after buying another book. It is lacking the pages before the title-page and also 249-52, but the last of the illustrations is intact on 246. This book seems to be Bodemann #166.2, but it is slightly smaller. Notice that the publisher has changed its name since my 1797 edition--from Wilson, Spence, and Mawman to T. Wilson and R. Spence. Now they are in London rather than in York. And has the spelling of Bewick's name lost an e? Let me repeat some of my comments from that 1797 copy. I thought then--and still think now--that I had found an earlier printing of the book that Bodemann's associates found only in this later printing. Bodemann's catalogue description mentions specifically the movement here to make the portion outside Bewick's ovals into fine ornaments that make the ensemble into a rectangle. This method contrasts with the simple lined rectangle that Bewick seems to have used earlier. The best and most typical of the illustrations here might be The Goat Without a Beard (73); The Man, the Cat, the Dog, and the Fly (197); and The Ravens, Sexton, and Earthworm (246). To that earlier list I would now add The Monkey Who Had Seen the World (50).

Identifier

en_US 5380 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80922

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US T. Wilson and R. Spence

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR3473.F3 1806

en_US John Gay

Type

en_US Book, Whole