FABLES by the Late Mr. Gay in One Volume Complete by Gay, John (1685-1732) (Bewick illustrations) - 1816

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.

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

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.

J. M'Creery, 1816. ~Frontis and many woodcut illustrations. Convent blindstamp. Original red morocco decorated in gilt. All edges gilt. Decorative endpapers. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. ~Robust packaging. All UK orders with tracking, overseas orders on request. . Hardback. Very Good. 222, (ii)pp. Pocketsize (9 x 14.5cm). Binding sound, text unmarked.

London: Printed for J. And R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington Etc., 1767. 192, part I with 50 fables, part II with 16 fables, 69 full-page engravings (including frontispiece), full leather, gilt rulings to spine, leather torn from boards in places, hinges weak, text-block firm and clean, owner inscription (1824) to front and back eps. A well-preserved copy of an often worn-out book. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Hardcover. Good/Jacket not Issued. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾". Book.

Glocester [Gloucester]: Printed and sold by S. Harward, 1783. 8vo, pp. viii, 268. Contemporary sheep, spine divided by raised bands between gilt rules, spine lettered in ink. Some light spotting, upper blank margin of title-page excised. Binding rubbed and a little worn at extremities, front flyleaf excised. Ownership inscriptions dated 1799 and 1836 to front pastedown. A rare provincial printing of Gay’s fables - ESTC locates just three copies, BL, Oxford, and Cambridge. ESTC T13862.

London: Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington, B. and B. White etc., 1792. Hardcover. Very Good. 7" x 4. Full calf boards, The spine is rubbed and worn, boards are rubbed and bumped at corners. Joints are slightly loose. Name to front pastedown and dated either 1792 or 4. Frontispiece full page engraving. Engravings throughout at start of each fable. Text is tight and clean.

London: Rivington, White, Longman, Law, Robinson et al., c. 1792.. Boards detached, otherwise in very good condition, text is clean and crisp.. Binding: Contemporary ½ gilt-lined calf with marble boards, spine in six raised gilt-lined compartments with gilt floral motifs, gilt red morocco label on two, gilt text on six, all edges tinted red, endpapers grey. , Size: 12mo. , Illustration: Complete with wood-engraved frontispiece and a profusion of wood-engraved illustrations to each chapter heading., Pages: P. (4), blank, frontis, title, blank, dedication, blank, contents vii-viii, 1-232, (4)., Category: Book Literature

London: W. Osborne, T. Griffin, and J.M. Mozley and Co, 1792. Hardcover. First Edition. 4 x 7in. [vi.] 215pp. Bound in recent full polished calf. Gilt titling and ornamentation. 5 raised bands. Marbled endpapers. New endpapers, lacking the original blanks. Illustrated with engravings on wood preceding each fable. Though several institutional records suspect Thomas Bewick to be the illustrator, we believe the illustrator to be a different artist, among several of lesser repute commissioned to emulate Bewick's engravings after their initial commercial success. A scarce edition, with only one copy held institutionally. NEAR FINE. The title page with former owner names of the period at the topmost, a hint of darkening to the margins of the title page, otherwise is Fine having been exceptionally well maintained. The text-block is bright and completely clean and the handsome modern binding remains crisp and new. As pictured.