Mr [John] Gay. Fables. J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1728.
Price: US$97.47 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Second edition. Brown leather, boards loose and worn at edges. Foxing to page edges. Endpaper has owner name and small rubbed hole. Proceeds to Amnesty International.
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop London, Shoreditch, United Kingdom
Gay, Mr. [John]. Fables [The Second Edition]. J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1728.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Description: 194 pages, plus 20 pages ads. Engravings at beginning of each chapter and title page, plus small tailpiece engravings. Worn leather binding. Loss at head and tail of spine. Corners bumped, worn. Joints cracked; board held by ties. Inked previous owner information on the front flyleaf; dated 1731. Endpapers foxed. A bit of foxing to the title page. Else pages fairly clean, with little foxing. ; B&W Illustrations; POH19D
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Gay, John Mr. Fables. J. Tonson and J. Watts, London, 1728.
Price: US$292.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp (xii), 194. Engraved title vignette and 51 engraved head pieces to each fable. Full paneled calf , wear to extremities and dent to front board. Water stain affecting the bottom front corners of the first and last few leaves. A nice copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
GAY JOHN.. Fables& The second edition.. Tonson and Watts., London,, 1728.
Price: US$392.03 + shipping
Description: Cm. 19,5, pp. (14) 194. Grande vignetta al frontespizio e 50 fini incisioni a mezza pagina raffiguranti prevalentemente animali. Leg. del tempo in cart. alla rustica con nervi passanti. Esemplare stampato su carta forte, in ottimo stato di conservazione. Seconda edizione, apparsa un anno dopo l'originale, di questa serie iniziale di favole che Gay scrisse per il principe William. Nel 1738 ne seguì una seconda e conclusiva serie.
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Benacense, riva del garda, Italy
Gay, John. Fables. Tonson & Watts London 1728, London, 1728.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition full leather some edgewear contents very good pages are clean and free from foxing the original full leather binding not bad for almost 300 years!
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Fables by Mr. Gay, Second Edition, 1728, and Fables by the late Mr. Gay, Third Edition, 1747. Vol. I, engraved title page, dedication page to William Duke of Cumberland, (4, Contents), (6, Introduction), 192 pp. Illustrated by Wm. Kent and John Wotton: Vol. 1; 50 plates + title page. Volume II, Engraved frontispiece and title page, (1, Advertisement), (4, Contents), 155 pp. illustrated by Hubert-Francois Gravelot; frontispiece, title page, 16 full page unnumbered plates. The 2nd and 3rd Editions, respectively, of Gay's Fables. Bound uniformly in contemporary calf, the small tickets of the period London bookseller R. Rothschild-Davidson at rear paste downs. Very Good, the joints fragile yet still holding, prior owner name in ink, the boards rubbed, titles dulled yet legible. toning at end papers, the plates are quite lovely. An unsophisticated and early set. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.