Fables.
John Gay (1685 – 1732)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 3075340
Summary
Bibliographic description
[14],194p. . ill.. (metal cuts) . 8vo.. Not indigenous. Marshall Sisson bequest. Imperfect: page 121-122 missing, text supplied in manuscript on a sheet of modern paper laid loose in the volume. Pencil sketch on back flyleaf, pen trials.. Provenance: Twentieth-century book label: "Marshall Sisson", attached to title page, obscuring a manuscript annotation. manuscript inscription "MCheape" on dedication page.. Binding: Eighteenth-century full leather; sewn over five raised bands; back cover blind panelled; double blind fillet to form a border; front cover missing, cover with volume is from a different binding, reverse leather, blind rolled to form a border, with eighteenth-century[?] armorial bookplate, lettered: "Josh. Townsend Esqr.".
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust in 1978 by Marshall Sisson.
Makers and roles
John Gay (1685 – 1732) Bernard Baron (Paris c.1696 - London 1762) Pierre Fourdrinier (1698-1758) William Kent (Bridlington 1685 - London 1748) Gerard Vandergucht (London 1696 - London 1776) John Wootton (Snitterfield c.1682 – London 1764)