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Fables; With A Life of the Author and embellished with Seventy Plates
de Gay, John
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Full green levant, spines evenly faded to brown. Aeg. Fine
- Librería
-
ardsley, New York, United States
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Sobre este artículo
London: John Stockdale, 1793. First edition. leather_bound. Full green levant, spines evenly faded to brown. Aeg. Fine. Blake, William. 225, 187. 27 x 17 cm. First Stockdale edition, first issue (with long "s" throughout). Frontispiece memorial illustration, engraved title pages in both volumes, and 68 engraved plates, including 12 by William Blake. Published posthumously with a life of the author at the end of volume 2. List of Subscribers also end of Vol.2; with verso of last leaf a publisher advert. With the "Gay Monument" plate at rear of second volume. BENTLEY 460. GORDON RAY. "Blake's twelve engravings follow designs in earlier editions of the 'Fables,' but hey are freely adapted." KEYNES 106. Wide text margins, plates with tissue guards, marbled endpapers, inner dentelles, backstrip lettered and decorated with gilt motifs. Bound by Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd Bentley of London.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Royoung bookseller, Inc.
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 23950
- Título
- Fables; With A Life of the Author and embellished with Seventy Plates
- Autor
- Gay, John
- Ilustrador
- Blake, William
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Leather_bound
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Full green levant, spines evenly faded to brown. Aeg. Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- John Stockdale
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1793
- Palabras clave
- Fables
Términos de venta
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All books returnable 10 days of invoice date with prior notification
Sobre el vendedor
Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Miembro de Biblio desde 2008
ardsley, New York
Sobre Royoung bookseller, Inc.
Member: Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America & International League of Antiquarian Booksellers
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- AEG
- All Edges Gilt. Describes a book in which the top, fore edge and bottom of the outside of the pages are decorated with gold...
