Gay, John

Fables by John Gay. With a Life of the Author and Embellished with a Plate to Each Fable

London, Printed by Darton & Harvey, 1793. Hardcover. 256p. illus. An edition which copies the John Stockdale edition of the same year with plates by William Blake (cf. Bentley 460) . Good condition, worn calf, corners chipped, some foxing, light tide mark in outer margin Two oval (7 x 9 cm.) engravings to each plate.

Brookline Village BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 012444

Keywords: Literature Illustrated Books

GAY, John

Fables by the Late Mr. Gay

1796. GAY, John. FABLES BY THE LATE MR. GAY. In One Volume Complete. London: Printed for T. Longman, B. Law, G. G. and J. Robinson, et al. 1796. Small 8vo. disbound with title page unattached yet present. As is. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 51917

Gay, John (1685-1732)

FABLES by John Gay, with a Life of the Author, and Embellished with a Plate to Each Fable.

London, Rivington, White & others printed Darton & Harvey 1793 Copperplate engravings (67 ovals on 34 plates & Engraved TP & frontis by G. Neagle (bound after Life of Gay). . Octavo (207x124mm) 2 Parts in 1 volume gilt calf (rebacked with old spine laid on - pine lacks labels & has some flaking & darkening, tips worn) xvi+256pp. Occasional minor spotting else clean and crisp throughout. *Based on Kent, Wooton & Gravelot engravings, some on Stockdale/Blake edition, others differ from both (eg. Fable 9).

Abbey Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: E48756

Catalogue: Fable and Emblem Books

Keywords: fables Gay

GAY, JOHN :

Fables by John Gay. With a Life of the Author and embellished with Seventy Plates. 2 Vols. (in 1)..

London, John Stockdale 1793. 4° Kupferstich-Titel, Xi., 225 S. / Kupferstich-Titel, VII., 187 S. + 68 Kupferstiche (cplt.). Roter Ganzlederband der Zeit mit Rücken- und dreiseitigem Goldschnitt. = Erste Ausgabe / First Edition. Exlibr. a. d. Innendeckel. Alle Kupferstiche sind sauber, die Textseiten dagegen tls. braunfleckig. Schönes, gut erhaltenes Buch. (1800 gr.).

Antiquariat und Buchhandlung Heiner HenkeProfessional seller

Book number: 37255

Catalogue: Literatur, Literaturgeschichte, Sekundärliteratur

Keywords: Erste Ausgabe / First Edition -

Gay, John

The Fables of Mr. John Gay (Complete in Two Parts)

London: T.Hughes / J. Cranwell, 1821. 16mo. 154 pp. Hardcover. Marbled paper boards with gilt title on spine and leather binding. No dust jacket. Fair with edgewear on pages and binding and foxing throughout. Includes black and white engraved frontispiece. .

Wittenborn Art BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 19-8541

Catalogue: Books

GAY John

Fables by the late Mr. Gay. In one volume complete

London, Print for J Buckland, 1788. In-8 relié plein veau blond de l'époque, dos lisse orné à motifs dorés, pièce de titre chocolat, roulette sur les coupes. 2 feuillets blancs, frontispice, titre, VIII + 240 pages, 2 feuillets blancs. 34 planches hors-texte à deux gravures (une seule planche à une gravure). Soit 68 gravures dont le frontispice. Un mouillure en marge de la page 25 à 32. Un coins inférieur assoupli. Exemplaire en bonne condition.

Librairie Gil Artgil SarlProfessional seller

Book number: 176887

Keywords: LIVRES ANCIENS LITTERATURE ANGLAISE

Gay, John and Thomas Bewick

The Fables of Mr. John Gay: Complete in Two Parts

York, T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1806. Hardcover. Full leather binding with 6 compartments, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, and blind debossed border on boards. Woodblock half titles and illustrations throughout. 252 pp. Features woodcuts by Thomas Bewick. 66 original fables intended for the young Duke William of Cumberland by John Gay (1685-1732), English writer and poet known for "The Beggar's Opera" and "Trivia, or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London. G, foxing throughout, pencil markings on front pastedown, wear to case especially at edges, hinges, and tail of spine. Readable, sewing still tight.

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 178044

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old, Fables, John Gay ; Fables ; ; Children's Books

Gay, John

Fables by John Gay: With a Life of the Author, and Embellished with a Plate to Each Fable

London, Darton & Harvey, 1793. Leather bound. Tan leather boards with gilt ruling, five raised bands on spine with gilt design. Red title block on spine with gilt lettering, yellow tinted edges, marble decorative end pages, bw illustrated title page, 2 unnumbered pages, xvi, 256 pages, 34 unnumbered leaves of plates, includes 66 bw engravings. Contains 66 fables in all, divided into two parts, each with an engraving. VG (bookplate on ffep, overall wear and fading to boards. Plates and text are very clean and clear.) .

Kevin Mullen, BooksellerProfessional seller

Book number: 179116

Catalogue: Literature Young and Old

Keywords: Literature Young and Old ; Fables, John Gay ; ;

Gay, John.

Fables. 2 parts (in 1 vol.).

Paris, printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard (by Crapelet), 1800. 209 S., 1 Bl. Kl.-8vo. Interimsbrosch. d. Zt.
¶ Enthält 50 Fabeln in gereimten Versen in Teil 1 u. 16 Dichtungen in Teil 2. Mit Biographie des englischen Lyrikers u. Dramatikers John Gay (1685-1732) "from the Biographia Britannica". - Umschlag etwas lichtspurig; meist unaufgeschnitten

Antiquariat Reinhold PabelProfessional seller

Book number: 61751

Catalogue: Literatur: Lyrik

Keywords: 17./18. Jahrhundert | 17th/18th century; Barock - Baroque; Englische Literatur - Englische Dichtung - English Literature; Fabel - Fabeln - Fables; Gedicht - Gedichte; Kleinformat - Kleinformatige Bücher - Small Book - Pocket Sized Books; Literatur - Lite

GAY, John

Fables by the late Mr. Gay in one volume complete

London, 1801. Used - Good. Good in full brown leather . Lacks all before frontis; binding tight; split in leather at head of spine front joint; patch of surface damage to leather on back board; no title on spine. Illustrated with a large number of woodcuts. Photo:.

Cotswold Internet BooksProfessional seller

Book number: BOOKS141449I

John Gay

Fables by John Gay with the Life of the Author. Embellished with Seventy Elegant Engravings. In One Volume Complete

London, G & J Robinson; R Baldwin; J Sewell; I Johnson; et al, 1820. Hardcover. ND. [1820 - WorldCat] Attractively illustrated edition of the Fables, with unusual title page portrait of Gay. Occasional minor foxing, but in general all is in VG clean and bright internal order. Engravings are generally crisp and well-inked. Marbled endpapers, split at hinges but boards holding well. Full leather, well worn to edges. Titlepiece missing from spine. This is a charity sale for Friends Of Morston Church (reg.1099831). 16mo. xvi, 228pp . Good/No Jacket.

Dodman BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 009410

Catalogue: Antiquarian

FORE-EDGE PAINTING; GAY, John; COLLINS, William

Fables

London: Printed for J. Sharpe, 1824. 'The Entrance to Hyde Park' An Early-to-Mid Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Painting FORE-EDGE PAINTING. GAY, John. Fables. London: Printed for J. Sharpe, 1812 [i.e. 1824]. With an early to mid twentieth century fore-edge painting of the "Entrance to Hyde Park" by an unidentified artist. Volumes I & II (of three) bound in one. Sixteenmo (4 3/4 x 3 inches; 121 x 76 mm.). Engraved frontispiece , engraved general title-page, [iv], [1]-155, [1, blank], engraved frontispiece, [1]-142 pp. Bound ca. 1824 in full red straight grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt and blind, smooth spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges, blind tooled turn-ins, gray endpapers, all edges gilt. Contents: Volume I The Fables of John Gay; Volume II The Poetical Works of John Gay (volume I only). .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 05177

Catalogue: Fine Bindings

Keywords: GAY, John COLLINS, William Fore-Edge Paintings Bindings English Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Eighteenth-Century Literature Fore-Edge Paintings Poetry

GAY John

Fables (1727, 1738). Introduction by Vincent A Dearing. [Facsimile reissue]. NEAR FINE COPY IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPERS

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles CA,, 1967. 8vo., First Edition thus, with numerous illustrations (a number full-page) in the text; original buff wrappers printed in black, a near fine copy. Issued as a Special Publication of the Augustan Reprint Society. This facsimile is a high-quality photographic reprint of copies in the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. VERY SCARCE.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 19381

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, gay, john gay, fables, augustan reprint society, clark memorial library

GAY [John]

Fables by the late Mr. Gay. In One Volume complete. [Illustrated by Thomas Bewick]. BEWICK WOODCUTS IN CONTEMPORARY TREE CALF

Printed by J. M'Creery, Black-Horse-Court,, 1816. 16mo., with engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous fine oval woodcuts by Bewick, neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked to style, blue sprinkled edges, a remarkably bright, clean, crisp copy. M'Creery printed for the Rivingtons and many others. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.

Island BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 31735

Catalogue: Literature0

Keywords: literature, gay, john gay, fables, gay's fables, bewick, thomas bewick, wood-engravings

GAY, JOHN & EDWARD MOORE

Fables in two parts to which are added fables by Edward Moore [ Stereotype edition ]

Crochard & Cie, s.a. (19th century). softcover (original), endpapers have been glued to the cover for protection, 12°, some age-marks (few dog-ears & stains), 232 pp, Please ask for photographs before ordering.. ISBN: Please mail for p&p or other questions before ordering.

ZoldermanProfessional seller

Book number: 20431

Keywords: fables