Fables By Mr. Gay
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Gay, John
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1728
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I had just finished cataloguing several Gay editions when I received an offer from Edward Pollack for a set of two second editions, one each of the two volumes of Gay's fables. I am delighted to have this very good copy, marred only by a hole at the top of the spine. See my remarks on the fourth edition of 1733. I would add to my commendations there that of the dynamic illustration of The tame Stag (49). The final pages were missing in that edition. They are here. Fable XXI is not misprinted. The paper here is very robust. There are a couple of pencillings and one or two tears and chips along the way. Now can I work my way all the way back to a first edition? Someone wrote Plates by Bewick on the front endpaper. I do not think his career began for another generation.
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Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts
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3558 (Access ID)