Two Volumes In Later Full Leather, Batik-Like Endpapers, Lacking Title Pages And Pp 139-188 Of First Volume, Otherwise Complete And Contents Fine. Volume I: Title Page Lacking, Dedication Leaf, 4 Pp Of Table, 6 Pp Introduction To The Fables, Pp 1-139, 188-194, With Half-Page Engravings By Wootten And Kent At Beginning Of Each Fable Within The Text; Volume Ii: Frontispiece Of Gay's Tomb, Advertisement Leaf, 4 Pp Of Table, Pp 1-154 With 16 Full Page Plate By Gravelot Facing The First Page Of Each Of The Sixteen Fables. As Title Pages Lacking, Exact Printing Unverified But Plates And Contents Match Those Of The First Printings Of Both Volumes. The Plates Of The First Volume, One Per Fable, Are Undated; The Plates In The Second Volume Are Dated 1738.

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Title

Fables [Volume 1 Dated 1727 And Volume 2 Dated 1738, Bound In One, Lacking Title Pages]

Publisher

[J. Tonson And J. Watts Circa 1727; J. And P. Knapton And T. Cox Circa 1738], London

Publication Date

1727

Language

English

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Condition

Poor

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Fine and unusual first editions and out of print books in all categories. Original photographs, Fine antiquarian and other original prints, paintings, drawings and watercolors. Motion picture and television scripts. Ephemera, Manuscripts and autographs. In business on the internet since 1999. Open by appointment only, in Pasadena, California.

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Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA
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