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

  • Gay, John
  • Glocester [Gloucester]: Printed and sold by S. Harward 1783
  • ESTC T13862.

£120

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Description

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.

Notes

A rare provincial printing of Gay's fables - ESTC locates just three copies, BL, Oxford, and Cambridge.

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