Search Results: fables by john gay

Printed by C. Whittingham for C.G. and J. Robinson, 1801. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1801. No Edition Remarks. 232 pages. Half bound in leather with paper covered boards. Front board nearly fully detached. Ex Libris plate to front pastedown. Moderate staining, foxing and tanning to pages, pastedowns and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate corner bumping and edge-wear with visible tanning, staining and scuffing overall. Spine has moderate rubbing and tanning with noticeable splitting and crushing to joints and ends.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. Publishers vellum binding with titles in red & black. Publishers device at base of front board. Portrait frontis with tissue guard. Edges untrimmed but top edge gilt. Boards a little marked as usual with this binding type. Spine darkened. Contents nice & clean. Previous owners ink signature on front board . Good. Hardcover. reprint. 1884.

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1884. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. Vellum binding. xxxix, 238pp. Binding slightly grubby and worn. A decent copy. With a memoir by Austin Dobson. (q15). Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Paperback / softback. New.

London, 1838. Book. Fair. Cloth. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Sixth edition. No publisher listed, but title page states " sold by all booksellers". Dark green textured cloth, with title in gilt on front cover. Condition: Fair, top and bottom of spine is chipped and worn, cover corners are bumped. Binding sound. Previous owners name in pencil on front pastedown. Front endpaper has been removed. Text clean, although very lightly browned. 236pp. Sixty-eight woodcuts. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Paperback. New.

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Rebound by Plymouth Public Library, 1883. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Thin 12mo. Library bound in brown boards with brown cloth spine. White title label to front board. 18 pages. A copy of pgs. 295-313 of another tome. BOB1108301.

GB: Simpkin & Others, 1849. 128 x 76 mm. Contemporary brown bobbled cloth lettered in gold on a decorated spine. Inscription of owner at start of book. Clean tight book BUT front cover detached. . Hardback. Good/No DW.

Imprint Society, 1970. Hardcover. Very Good. . Fading to spine, general shelf/dust wear to slipcase. Otherwise VG. Pages/boards clean, binding sturdy.

London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1882. Hardcover. Good. Nice little 16to. edition of John Gay's verse Fables. With a memoir by Austin Dobson. Top edge gilt. Other edges uncut. Red and black title page. Facing portrait of Gay. Previous owner's name to ffep. Covers a trifle grubby but contents clean and tight. Good condition.

Paperback. New.

New.

New.

James Nichol, Edinburgh, 1859.. 1859. Hardcover. hardback, 8vo, xxxii,382pp, ex-library, label on endpaper, stamps on title page and some margins, text otherwise clean and sound, publisher's blindstamped green cloth, gilt titles, shelf-mark label on spine, Good condition .

Hardback. Poor. Bewick, Thomas. London, 1821; 12m0, pp iv, 114; full calf, binding rubbed, front board loose, lacks both end papers, old ink scribbling on both the verso of the frontispiece and the back pasted end paper, some browing but also extensive soilding through use throughout, part torn out of final leaf with consequent slight loss of text; noted as "end of first part" on the last sheet but apparently complete with 50 fables; engraved frontispiece of a theatrical mask, decorated title, and with each fable decorated with a wood engravings by Thomas Bewick at the head. WAF

Barre, Massachusetts: Imprint Society, 1970. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Limted/numbered/signed. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover, bound in russet cloth with paper covered boards and paper spine label. Top edge gilt. Introduction by Peter A. Tasch. Illustrated with numerous vignette wood-engravings (several full page) throughout by Gillian Lewis Tyler. Limited edition of 1,950 copies, signed and numbered on colophon page by artist, this being copy 134. A collection of over 65 tales purporting moral and political wisdom in a satirical vein similar to Dryden and Swift. No previous ownership marks. A clean, square, internally unmarked copy, several very light and incidental marks to boards. Issued without dust-jacket but lacks publisher's slipcase. Very good+. .

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, 1967. Trade paperback in very good condition. Soft cover. Very Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback. New.