Fair condition. Volume 1 of 2. Front board missing. Back board detached but present. Spine loose. Consists of 50 fables with an steel-engraved plate for each fable. nine of the engravings are by William Blake. Pages are basically clean with little fading and light finger prints towards edges of just a few pages. Extremely rare volume considering the 9 Blake engravings are in very good condition.

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Title

Fables of John Gay with a Life of the Author and Embellished with 70 Plates, Volume I [with 9 by William Blake]

Publisher

John Stockdale, London

Publication Date

1793

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Blake, William (9 steel-engraved plates)

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Fair

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