Fables
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Type of record: Book
Title: Fables
Classmark: Blake Collection 1/BLA
Creator(s): Gay, John (1685-1732)
Additional creator(s): Blake, William (1757-1827) (Other); Skelton, William (1763-1848) (Other); Stockdale, John (1749?-1814) (Other); Grainger, W (fl.1784-1793) (Other)
Related people: Blake, William; Skelton, William; Stockdale, John; Grainger, W
Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1793
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 v in 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/224522
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991012084459705181
Collection group(s): English Literature
Description
Illustrations: 70 copper engravings, comprising frontispiece (Gay's monument), engraved t.p.s with vignettes, and 67 plates, 12 of which are engraved by William Blake and the others by W. Skelton, W. Grainger, Audinet, Cook, Lovegrove, Manzell, and Wilson. The designs were adapted from those of Kent, Wooton or Gravelot in earlier editions. Cf. Bentley.
There is no indication of a printer; the long s is used throughout. Cf. Bentley.
Vol. 1: [2], xi, 225 p., [51] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], vii, 187, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates.
List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, dated Feb. 2, 1793 p. 177-[188] of v. 2.
Keynes, G. Blake 106.
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