Beschreibung:

Blake (William, illustrator). Fables by John Gay, with a Life of the Author and embellished with Seventy Plates, 2 volumes, London: John Stockdale, 1793, engraved monument frontispiece to volume I, engraved title page with vignette to both volumes (both trimmed with minor loss to head and foot), 67 engraved plates (12 by Blake), advertisements to volume II, sewing weakening in places, very light spotting to a few leaves, bookplate of Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver dated 1910 to front pastedowns, early 19th-century full green calf, gilt and blindstamped borders to boards, elaborately gilt-decorated spines with morocco title labels, slightly rubbed with water stain fore-margin to lower cover of volume I, 8vo (Quantity: 2) Bentley and Nurmi 371A; Bentley, Blake Books 460, Bentley, The Stranger from Paradise, p.457 First Stockdale edition, first issue (with long "s" throughout, and with List of Subscriber's at rear of second volume). First edition with plates by William Blake