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Flowers of English fable / by John Gay ; embellished with sixty-seven engravings on wood

Accession number
PML 88940
Creator
Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Published
London : Thomas Nelson, Paternoster Row , MDCCCXLVII [1847]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
Thirty-four full-page wood engraved illustrations, including frontispiece, all unsigned.
Engraved t.p. printed in red with engraved vignette.
"C.I. Toohil Jun.? from his kind friend M: Lawton, June 24. 1849"--inscription in black ink inside upper cover.
Description
[2], 7, [1], 178, [2] p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings) ; 12 x 8 cm
Provenance
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Publisher's red ribbed morocco-grain cloth, blocked in blind and gold, edges gilt, with yellow endpapers.
Classification
Department