Research Catalog
Fables
- Title
- Fables / by the late Mr. Gay.
- Author
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Publication
- London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts, 1737.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Permit needed | Berg Coll Gay F23 1737 | Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320 |
| Text | Supervised use | NCL (Gay, J. Fables. 1737) | Offsite |
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- Description
- [14], 194 p. : ill.; 21 cm. (4to)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Engravings – England – 18th century.
- Ink stamps (Provenance).
- Bookplates (Provenance).
- Note
- A second volume of Fables was published 1738.
- Engraved vignettes illustrating the fables after designs by Van der Gucht engraved by John Wootton and William Kent.
- Signatures: A⁴, B-N⁸, O⁴.
- Title within double line border; title vignette; head and tail pieces.
- Bound in full calf with gilt rule.
- Indexed In (note)
- ESTC
- Foxon
- Call Number
- NCL (Gay, J. Fables. 1737)
- OCLC
- 15618484
- Author
- Gay, John, 1685-1732.
- Title
- Fables / by the late Mr. Gay.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for J. and R. Tonson and J. Watts, 1737.
- Edition
- The fifth edition
- Indexed In:
- ESTC T013822.Foxon p. 295
- Local Note
- Berg Coll. copy has C. Adolph Mayer's bookplate on free endpaper.Berg Coll. copy contains ink stamp on free endpaper, "H. Baumgarten, Werk no. 2036 [in ms.], Band no. 4123 [in ms.], Wien."Berg Coll. copy: Gift of Sandra Saltzman, Oct. 1, 2004.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wootton, John, approximately 1682-1764.Kent, William, 1685-1748.Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776.Tonson, Jacob, 1656?-1736.Watts, John, -1763.Tonson, Richard.Saltzman, Sandra. DonorFord Collection.
- Research Call Number
- NCL (Gay, J. Fables. 1737)Berg Coll Gay F23 1737