Search Results: fables in two parts by gay john

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

Nabu Press, 2011-09-01. Paperback. Good.

Nabu Press, 2011-09-06. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Paperback. New.

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.

Hardback. New.

Printed by and for T. Wilson and Son, 1810. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1810. No Edition Remarks. 252 pages. Fully bound in brown leather. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front pastedown and free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable brown staining to pages throughout. Tearing to gutters of pages 17-24, pages are loose but just attached. Visible creasing to gutter. Cracking to hinges and gutters, leaving netting exposed. Boards have heavy edge-wear with bumping to corners, crushing to spine ends and rub wear all over. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Visible loss and splits to spine. Notable peeling leather to all.

London: Thomas Wilson and Son. Good+. 1811. hardcover. 252 pp; Full leather binding is scuffed and worn. Spine is slightly chipped, hinges are cracked but pages are all secure. Pages are foxed and toned. ; Always Delivery Confirmation. 35 Years Fast Excellent Service. We Know How To Pack Books. .

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Printed for John Bell, London: 1793., 1793 167 p. Foxed. 165mm. Leather backed stipple decorated leather boards. Leather spine label misplaced. Loss on spine. John Gay (1685-1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club. In 1727 he wrote for six year old Prince William, later the Duke of Cumberland, Fifty-one Fables in Verse, for which he naturally hoped to gain some preferment, although he has much to say in them of the servility of courtiers and the vanity of court honours. He was offered the situation of gentleman-usher to the Princess Louisa, who was also still a child. He refused this offer, which all his friends seem to have regarded (without much apparent reason) an indignity. Scarce. An unusual and very scarce little edition. POETRY BX 2 0.0. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: Thomas Wilson and Son, 1811. Cloth. Very Good. 8vo. 252 pp. The pages are heavily toned. Modern cloth binding. Still a nice copy of Bewick's immortal vignettes.

Didot-Baudry's, 1813. Esemplare ben conservato con rilegatura d'epoca 1813/1858, pagg. del I vol. ingiallite dal tempo.Vol. in 16°. Vetrsin4.

London: Printed for Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810. 12mo, pp. [iv], 247, [1, ads]. Original tan paper boards, spine lettered in ink. Some spotting and light soiling. Binding rubbed and soiled, spine partially defective, joints cracked but holding, no flyleaves.

Paris : Printed By P. Didot, The Elder, Eighth Year, 1800. Stereotype Edition. Hardback. Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Raised bands with gilt cross-bands and titling. An uncommonly good example - scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 235 pages; Physical desc. : 235, [5]p. ; 12°. With two final advertisement leaves. Referenced by: English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT13880.

Paris: At the Printing Office and Stereotype Foundry of P. Didot and of F. Didot, 1800. First of the Edition, the Didot Stereotype edition, with the fine provenance of Henry Lee of the important Boston family. With an engraved frontispiece and title-page. 12 mo, contemporary full tan mottled calf, gilt lettered and elaborately decorated with gilt tooling separating compartments on the spine, with gilt rolled borders to the covers. 235 pp. A handsome copy, the first free-fly and first prelim excised, otherwise the book and text-block are complete. One of Gay's best known works, the fables are not moral tales: "for a Fable he gives now and then a Tale or an abstracted Allegory; and from some, by whatever name they may be called, it will be difficult to extract any moral principle. They are, however, told with liveliness; the versification is smooth; and the diction, though now and then a little constrained by the measure of the rhyme, is generally happy." [Samuel Johnson] Henry Lee's… Read More

London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1810. Fourth Edition. 10mo in dark brown leather; six-band spine with gold gilt; VG; moderate shelf wear and soiling; previous owner's initials on ffep; frontispiece engraving and vignettes throughout; age-toned paper; text in tight print; pp. 247; GP consignment; NOTE: Shelved in Room G. 1260038. FP New Rockville Stock.

York:: Printed by and for T. Wilson and Son,, 1810.. old half calf over marbled boards; all edges marbled; gilt paneled spine.. Armorial bookplate; slightest of use to the handsome binding. . 12mo,. With cuts by T. Bewick, of Newcastle..

Paris, printed for Ant. Aug. Renouard (by Crapelet), 1800. . 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

London:: Thomas Wilson and Son,, 1811.. later full green gilt morocco; a.e.g.. Old ink gift inscription; very shallow chipping at head of spine and light rubbing at joints. . 12mo,. With cuts by T. Bewick, of Newcastle..