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London: Printed for J. Brambles, A. Meggitt, and J. Waters, by H. Mozley, Market-Place Gainsborough, 1805. 12mo (in 6s), pp. [vi], 202, woodcut image of Gay on title-page, and 66 other woodcuts, one for each fable, contemporary quarter roan, marbled boards; tear in lower margin of C1 (pp. 13 - 14), with slight loss of text in lower margin of verso, some headlines closely shaved with partial loss of numbers, binding very shabby, with partial loss of leather on spine, but text clean. Illustrations of Gay's Fables from this period are hardly uncommon, and I am reasonably sure that the woodcuts derive from those by Thomas Berwick. Uncommon: copies located in BL; Kansas and Harvard in the USA; King's College in Nova Scotia
GAY'S FABLES. In One Volume. Complete From the Last London Edition by Gay, John - 1808
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Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by Mathew Carey, No.122, Market-Street, 1808. 15 cm. 122pp. plus six plates, including frontispiece. Contemporary leather and rubbed marbled boards, spine gilt. Scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on title page. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 15090. ROSENBACH 365.
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Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. 122pp. plus six plates (including frontispiece). 16mo. Contemporary half roan and marbled boards, spine gilt. Extremities worn, boards rubbed. Light scattered foxing. Contemporary ink inscription on front free endpaper; later ink signature on front pastedown. Very good. First American edition of the poems composed by John Gay for William, Duke of Cumberland. Complete with the charming frontispiece and five wood-engraved plates. SHAW & SHOEMAKER 15090. ROSENBACH CHILDREN'S 365
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