Shelfmark
Gn.1.03
Author
Uniform title
[Fables]
Title
Fables by John Gay With a Life of the Author and embellished with Seventy Plates.
Edition
Complete edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.
Physical description
2 v. (xi, 225; vii, 187 p.): pl. ; 27 cm. (8vo)
Note
First issue publication (the use of long 's' was modernised in the second issue).
Note
Twelve illustrations engraved by William Blake, the remainder by Audinet, Cook, Grainger, Lovegrove, Mazell, Skelton and Wilson.
Note
Publisher's advertisements: v. 2, p. [ii], [188].
Note
Signatures: A⁶, B-E⁸.
Citation/references note
ESTC, N9619
Provenance
19th-century bookplate of Eton College School Library on first flyleaf recto.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown.
Provenance
Ms. note on third flyleaf recto: "[?] Lewis his Book - 1800".
Binding
?19th quarter-bound red morocco and marbled paper over millboards. Gilted edges between the covers' leather and paper. Spine with five raised bands, decorated with gilt rolls and tools; gilt titling, including place and date of publication of the text ('Gay's Fables'; 'Lond: 1793').Single headbans of alternative plain and green thread. Textblock trimmed and flat, marbled on all edges. Endpapers of marbled paper facing the pastedowns. Three flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Plate to fable XVII (v.1) is in v.2.
Subject
Fables, English.
Subject
Early printed books 18th century.
Added entry--name
Blake, William, 1757 - 1827 illustrator.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Stockdale, John, 1749? - 1814 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Audinet, Philip, 1766 - 1837 engraver.
Added entry--name
Cooke, George, 1781 - 1834 engraver.
Added entry--name
Mazell, Peter, active 1761 - 1797 engraver.
Added entry--name
Skelton, William, 1763 - 1848 engraver.
Added entry--name
Eton College School Library former owner.
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B50819