Lot 352
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GAY, John (1685-1732). Fables. London: for John Stockdale, 1793. 2 volumes, 8° (261 x 160mm). Engraved frontispiece and 67 engraved plates by Blake, Grainger, Mazell and others. With the list of subscribers bound at the end. Green morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spines in compartments with red morocco onlays on the bands, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, turn-ins and edges (spine lightly and evenly faded, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: J.F. Hinckley (bookplate) -- purchased from Ch. Bosse, 1923.
GAY, John (1685-1732). Fables. London: for John Stockdale, 1793. 2 volumes, 8° (261 x 160mm). Engraved frontispiece and 67 engraved plates by Blake, Grainger, Mazell and others. With the list of subscribers bound at the end. Green morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spines in compartments with red morocco onlays on the bands, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, turn-ins and edges (spine lightly and evenly faded, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: J.F. Hinckley (bookplate) -- purchased from Ch. Bosse, 1923.

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GAY, John (1685-1732). Fables. London: for John Stockdale, 1793. 2 volumes, 8° (261 x 160mm). Engraved frontispiece and 67 engraved plates by Blake, Grainger, Mazell and others. With the list of subscribers bound at the end. Green morocco by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd, spines in compartments with red morocco onlays on the bands, gilt supralibros, gilt spine lettering, turn-ins and edges (spine lightly and evenly faded, extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: J.F. Hinckley (bookplate) -- purchased from Ch. Bosse, 1923.

WITH 12 PLATES ENGRAVED BY BLAKE. A bright, attractive example, the plates bound with guards and therefore with little of the offsetting that is so common with this title. Bentley 460; Brunet II, 1510; Lowndes III, p.870. (2)

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