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FABLES, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY JOHN GAY, 1793
FABLES, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY JOHN GAY, 1793
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1793. London. Gay, John. Fables, with a life of the Author. Two Parts in One. Darton & Harvey for F. & C. Rivington, et. al 1793. First issue, with the long "s'' throughout. 8vo. xvi 256 pp. Recent 1/2 calf with marbled boards, raised bands, gilt, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece, engraved title page with engraved vignette, illustrated on 34 leaves each with a pair of B/W engraved plates of which 12 are images by Blake. Ray, England 1; Essick, William Blake's Commercial Book Illustrations, XXVI. Ray 7. Lowndes 17. The illustrations are copies of the 1793 Stockdale edition, re-engraved in an oval form. Cf. Gumuchian, no. 2682. The "Life of John Gay, p [iii]-xiv, is from Johnson's Lives of the English poets., , LOT REF #24-346
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FABLES, WITH A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR BY JOHN GAY, 1793

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