Shelfmark
Gn.1.05
Author
Uniform title
[Fables. Complete edition]
Title
Fables by John Gay, with a life of the author, And embellished with a Plate to each Fable.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, B. & B. White, T. Longman, B. Law & Son, G. G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell. S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H .L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith, J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Seatcherd & Co. G. & T. Wilkie, & E. Newbery., MDCCXCIII. [1793]
Physical description
[2], xvi, 256 p.: pl.; 24 cm. (8vo)
Note
The title page is engraved.
Note
One of two settings with the same title page. In this setting the last line of text on A2r ends "is not known", the catchword is: The; the lines of text are loosely spaced, p. 242 is misnumbered 422, and leaf Q3 is signed.
Note
Signatures: A-R⁸.
Note
Some plates by William Blake.
Citation/references note
ESTC, T13872
Provenance
Ex libris label of Clement James Mellish Adie (1876-1954), chief Warden at Eton College.
Binding
18th-century mottled brown clafskin over paste/millboards. Gilt fillings around the border of the covers.Spine with no raised bands; gilt tools and fillets; gilt titling over red morocco label ('Gray's Fables'). Single endbands with plain thread. Textblock trimmed and flat. Endleaves of marbled (pastedowns and facing flyleaves) and undecorated paper; two flyleaves at the upper end of the textblock and three at the lower end.
Copy-specific note
Ephemera between B8 and a plate: fragment of envelope with two stamps from the Republic of Argentina, stamped on 26 May 1919.
Subject
Fables, English Early works to 1800.
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Blake, William, 1757 - 1827 illustrator.
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Longman, Thomas, 1731 - 1797 bookseller.
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Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742 - 1802 bookseller.
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Bladon, Samuel, ? - -1799 bookseller.
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Baldwin, R. (Robert), 1737 - 1810 bookseller.
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Sewell, John, 1733 or 1734 - 1802 bookseller.
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Johnson, J. (John), 1777 - 1848 bookseller.
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Gardner, Henry Lasher, ? - -1808 bookseller.
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Bew, John, ? - -1793 bookseller.
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Goldsmith, William, ? - -1795 bookseller.
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Murray, John bookseller.
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Lowndes, W. (William) bookseller.
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Newbery, E. (Elizabeth), 1746 - 1821 bookseller.
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Adie, C. J. M. (Clement James Mellish), 1876 - 1954 former owner.
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Darton & Harvey printer.
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F. and C. Rivington bookseller.
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B. Law and Son bookseller.
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G. and T. Wilkie bookseller.
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England London.
Identifier
B50832