Accession number
PML 63931-32
Creator
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Published
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes
Engraved title pages.
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.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Vol. 1: [2], xi, 225 p., [51] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, 187, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
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.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Vol. 1: [2], xi, 225 p., [51] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, 187, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
Description
2 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 29 cm.
Provenance
From the collection of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
Binding
Quarter leather and mottled boards.
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