Gay’s Fables

by GAY, JOHN

Price: $300.00

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Bookseller: marilyn braiterman rare books
Seller Inventory #: 2551
Format: H Morocco and Boards
Book condition: Very Good.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mathew Carey
Place: Philadelphia
Date published: 1808

Book Description

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey. 1808. 12mo. H Morocco and Boards. Very Good.. Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1808. 12mo, contemporary red straight-grain morocco and marbled boards; spine gilt-lettered and ruled. Some foxing and browning but a very nice copy. The fables were originally written for William Duke of Cumberland, the dedicatee, by the English poet and playwright. Illustrated with frontispiece and five engraved plates. Rosenbach 365: "The prefatory poem (by a mother for her children) earns for this work the right to be included in a collection of books for children." S & S, 15090.

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