Accession number:
PML 63931-32
Published:
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1793.
Description:
2 v. : ill. (engravings) ; 29 cm.
Credit:
Gift of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne, 1973.
Notes:
Engraved title pages.
Illustrations: 70 copper engravings, comprising frontispiece (Gay's monument), vol. 2, 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.
Binding:
Quarter leather and mottled boards.
Provenance:
From the collection of Mrs. Landon K. Thorne.
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