Fables / by John Gay, with a life of the author and embellished with seventy plates. ...
Gay, John, 1685-1732
Category
Books
Date
1793
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3232386.1
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 1, plates ; fol. Uniformly bound and shelved with "The fables, of Æsop" (London: John Stockdale, 1793). Bookseller's pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "4 Vols. / see Aesop." Other erased pencil notes on front free endpaper verso (illegible). Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Thomas Baring'. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Historic shelfmark in pencil on bookplate of Thomas Baring: "L 1". Binding: Late eighteenth-century full calf, Etruscan-style: central tree calf panels with gilt rolled Greek key border; blind tooled inner border and gilt rolled outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; black morocco spine labels, gilt lettered: 'Gay's fables' and 'Vol. I.'; single gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers; green ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Gay, John, 1685-1732, author