Accession number
PML 6868
Creator
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Published
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Engraved title page and frontispiece showing Gay's monument.
Illustrations: 70 copper engravings, comprising frontispiece (Gay's monument), vol. 2, engraved t.p.s with vignettes, and 67 plates, 12 of which are engraved by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger, Audinet, Cook, Lovegrove, Manzell, and Wilson. The designs were adapted from those of Kent, Wooton or Gravelot in earlier editions. Cf. Bentley.
Life of Gay at end of vol. 2.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Illustrations: 70 copper engravings, comprising frontispiece (Gay's monument), vol. 2, engraved t.p.s with vignettes, and 67 plates, 12 of which are engraved by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger, Audinet, Cook, Lovegrove, Manzell, and Wilson. The designs were adapted from those of Kent, Wooton or Gravelot in earlier editions. Cf. Bentley.
Life of Gay at end of vol. 2.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Description
2 v. : plates (engravings); 27 cm
Provenance
Theodore Irwin; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Calf by W. Pratt.
Classification
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