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Names: Gay, John, 1685-1732 (Author); Blake, William, 1757-1827 (Engraver); Skelton, William, 1763-1848 (Engraver)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1793; Place: London :; Publisher: Printed for John Stockdale
Library locations: Spencer Collection; Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Eng. 1793
Topics: Fables; Bindings
Notes: Content: Binding, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt and jewelled, withelaborate illustrative sunken panels on covers and doublures.; Content: Hoe, I, 296. Keynes: Blake, 106.; Content: Illustrations: 70 copper engravings[beta] comprising frontispiece (Gay's monument), title vignettes and 67 plates, 12 of which are by William Blake and the others byW. Skelton, W. Grainger and others. The designs were adapted from those in earlier editions.; Content: List of subscribers and publisher's advertisement of Aesop's Fables, p. 177-[188] of v. 2.; Statement of responsibility: by John Gay, with a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates.
Physical Description: Extent: 2 v. plates. 29cm. (8̕.)
Identifiers: NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16831980; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 07e11ee0-c607-012f-df64-58d385a7bc34

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