Fables By the Late Mr. Gay in Two Volume by GAY, JOHN - 1757

Printed by C. Whittingham for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1801. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1801. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. Half bound in leather with paper covered boards. Front board nearly fully detached. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Moderate staining, foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible tanning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has moderate rubbing and tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to joints and ends.

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Limted/numbered/signed. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, bound in russet cloth with paper covered boards and paper spine label. Top edge gilt. Introduction by Peter A. Tasch. Illustrated with numerous vignette wood-engravings (several full page) throughout by Gillian Lewis Tyler. Limited edition of 1,950 copies, signed and numbered on colophon page by artist, this being copy 134. A collection of over 65 tales purporting moral and political wisdom in a satirical vein similar to Dryden and Swift. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, internally unmarked copy, several very light and incidental marks to boards. Issued without dust-jacket but lacks publisher's slipcase. Very good+. .

Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-06-10. Paperback. Good.

New. .

C & J Rivington etc.. Very Good. 1823. Hardcover. Very Good hardcover edition, has been rebound with new endpapers. No names or marks. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 222 pages .

Imprint Society, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and slip cover. Ex-library stamps to page ends and rear end page. Ships daily.

Nabu Press, 2010-02-23. Paperback. Good.

Nabu Press, 2011-08-14. Paperback. Good.

Hardback. Poor. Bewick, Thomas. London, 1821; 12m0, pp iv, 114; full calf, binding rubbed, front board loose, lacks both end papers, old ink scribbling on both the verso of the frontispiece and the back pasted end paper, some browing but also extensive soilding through use throughout, part torn out of final leaf with consequent slight loss of text; noted as "end of first part" on the last sheet but apparently complete with 50 fables; engraved frontispiece of a theatrical mask, decorated title, and with each fable decorated with a wood engravings by Thomas Bewick at the head. WAF

Boston, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 27 x 18 cm. Quarto. 234pp. Illustrated cloth in slipcase. Illustrated with 66 wood engravings by Gillian Lewis Tayler. Limited to 1950 copies signed by the artist, of which this copy is unnumbered. Light rubbing to edges of cloth. Some soiling to the slipcase.