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About this Item

Title

  • Fables

Names

  • Gay, John, 1685-1732, author.
  • Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, bookseller.
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver.
  • Skelton, William, 1763-1848, engraver.
  • Grainger, W., engraver.
  • Audinet, Philip, 1766-1837, engraver
  • Cook, Thomas, approximately 1744-1818, engraver.
  • Mazell, Peter, active 1761-1797, engraver.
  • Hoe, Robert, 1839-1909, former owner.
  • Bell, Thomas, 1785-1860, former owner.
  • Carlebach, Herbert L., former owner.
  • Ferguson, Ivor A. B. (Andrew Benyon), 1874-1938, former owner.
  • Wick, Peter A., former owner.
  • Club Bindery binder.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.

Headings

  • -  Fables, English
  • -  England--London

Genre

  • Bookbinding (Binding)--DLC

Notes

  • -  Pagination: volume 1: [2], xi, [1], 225, [1] pages, [53] leaves of plates; volume 2: [2], vii, [1], 187, [1] pages, [17] leaves of plates.
  • -  Illustrations variously signed: Wilson sculp, Brown sculpt, Blake sc., Lovegrove sculp., W. Skelton sculpt, W. Grainger sculpt., Audinet sculp, Cook sculp., P Mazell sculp.
  • -  Added engraved title pages: Fables / by John Gay ; with a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates.
  • -  Twelve of the plates engraved by William Blake. Cf. Rosenwald.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1833
  • -  Ars Libri Ltd. Library of Peter A. Wick, part two: fables, page 10, entry 65
  • -  Keynes, G.L. Bibliography of W. Blake (New York, 1921), 106
  • -  English short title catalogue, N9619
  • -  LC copy: Provenance: Bookplates of Robert Hoe and Thomas Bell.
  • -  LC Copy: Citron levant morocco, gilt back and side panels, gilt top, by the Club bindery, 1902.
  • -  Includes "The life of John Gay": volume 2, pages 161-175.
  • -  LAC scc 2019-12-06 no edits (1 card)
  • -  LAC ael 2022-02-15 update (1 card)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-04-13 update (1 card)

Medium

  • 2 volumes : illustrations (engravings) ; 29 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PR3473 .F3 1793
  • PR3473 .F3 1793 Copy 2 Rosenwald collection 1833a. Ex libris: Herbert L. Carlebach.
  • PR3473 .F3 1793 Copy 3 Rosenwald collection 1833b. Bookplate of Ivor A.B. Ferguson.
  • PR3473 .F3 1793 Copy 4 In full red leather, with fine ruled borders in gilt; inner botanical border in gilt; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Has bookplate in each volume: PAW [Peter A. Wick]. Has inscription in volume 1: Bought of David L. O'Neal, Nov. 1993 ... Bound by Bartlett & Co., Boston. Has label in each volume: H.4.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 17014448

Online Format

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  • pdf
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Gay, John, Author, John Stockdale, William Blake, William Skelton, W Grainger, Philip Audinet, Thomas Cook, et al. Fables. London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/17014448/.

APA citation style:

Gay, J., Stockdale, J., Blake, W., Skelton, W., Grainger, W., Audinet, P. [...] Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1793) Fables. London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/17014448/.

MLA citation style:

Gay, John, Author, et al. Fables. London: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/17014448/>.