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Fables by John Gay, with a life of the author, and embellished with a plate to each Fable.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Standardized Title:
- Fables. Complete edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fables, English--Early works to 1800.
- Fables, English.
- Genre:
- Poems.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([2],xvi,256p., plates )
- Other Title:
- Fables by John Gay,
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by Darton & Harvey, for F. & C. Rivington, B & B. White, T. Longman, B. Law & Son, G.G. & J. Robinson, T. Cadell. S. Bladon, R. Baldwin, J. Sewell, J. Johnson, H.L. Gardner, J. Bew, W. Goldsmith, J. Murray, W. Lowndes, J. Seatcherd & Co. G. & T. Wilkie, & E. Newbery, MDCCXCIII. [1793]
- Notes:
- The titlepage is engraved.
- One of two settings with the same titlepage. In this setting the last line of text on A2r ends "is not known", the catchword is: The; the lines of text are loosely spaced, p.242 is misnumbered 422, and leaf Q3 is signed.
- Reproduction of original from British Library.
- Cited in:
- English Short Title Catalog, T13872.
- OCLC:
- 83387876
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