Search Results: fables by the late mr gay by gay john

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.

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.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-06-29. Paperback. Good.

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 0876360029 . A limited edition of a series of fables written in verse by the English playwright and poet John Gay (1685-1732). The fables are accompanied by the wood-engraved illustrations of Gillian Lewis Tyler, who has signed the limitation page at rear of book. Stated limitation of 1,950 copies, unspecified copy number. Includes a preface by Peter A. Tasch. --- A very well-made book, in tan paper-covered boards with Tyler illustrations to covers; backed in reddish-brown cloth with titling on tan spine label & TEG (top edge gilt). Volume housed in heavy-duty tan paper-covered slipcase with titling and Tyler artwork to one panel. --- A clean, tightly-bound, bright copy with a couple of faint scratch to covers, else lacking apparent damages. Slipcase also in great shape but with a couple of tiny scuff marks to front panel. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping… Read More

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

Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. Book. Illus. by Tyler, Gillian Lewis. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hard covers, in slipcase. Signed by the illustrator at rear. This is number 846 of 1950 numbered copies. Slipcase slightly scuffed. Clean, tight, and unmarked. A sound and handsome copy!.

Paperback. New.

Luckman and Suffield. 1798 Luckman and Suffield leather-bound pocket volume; listed as acceptable, the hooped bark leather spine, spine ends and edges are quite worn and binding loosening; 213 pages; tan leather; inscription on front end paper; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Acceptable. Leather Bound. 1798.

Hardback. New.

Imprint Society, 1970. Limited edition. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase, with slight rubbing and two-inch separation to edge. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket. Illus. by Gillian Lewis Taylor.

London: J. Buckland, W. Strahan, 1783. First thus. Hardcover. Good. 16mo, full sheep, later spine rebacking, green endpapers. Gay's fables made him famous before his "Beggar's Opera". No engravings in this copy. Ex libris Lee Merton Watson. ESTCT13861

Collectible Good. hardcover no dust jacket, as issued - #689/1000 SIGNED by Gillian Tyler - text appears clean and unmarked with light smudging to page block edges , binding is square and tight, covers are clean, slipcase is missing -- Dependable seller since 1994, daily shipping with tracking from our brick and mortar store in Madison, Wisconsin

Coventry: Luckman & Fuffield, 1798. Leather. Good. 4" by 3". None. A charming pocket-sized collection of fables from English writer John Gay. Pocket-sized. Complete in one volume. With a frontispiece. A collection of fables including: The Lion, The Tyger, and The Traveller; The Wild Boar and The Ram; The Lady and The Wasp; The Two Owls and The Sparrow; The Hare and Many Friends, and more. Written and collected by John Gay, an English poet and dramatist who was a member of the Scriblerus Club. Bound in full calf. Externally, sound with rubbing and light wear to the extremities. Fading to the spine with the odd mark to the boards. Minor loss to the head of the spine and tips of the front board. With a small crack to the front joint. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with light scattered spotting. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper. Good