Fables by John Gay, . with a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates. ...
John Gay (1685 – 1732)
Category
Books
Date
1793
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire
NT 3042700
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v. ([2],xi,[1],225,[1];[2],vii,[1],187,[1]p), plates . fol.. Accession no. 3764.1-2 Catalogued from Barber catalogue. Provenance: Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: "Alfred Braithwaite", late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled tree calf; blue lettering-pieces, green and red numeration pieces, blue silk marker, marbled endleaves.
Makers and roles
John Gay (1685 – 1732)