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GAY, John (1685-1732). Fables , London: printed for John Stockdale, 1793. 2 volumes, large 8° (261 x 157mm). Engraved frontispiece, 2 titles and 67 engraved plates by W. Grainger, P. Mazell and others, including 12 by William Blake list of subscriber's at end. (Occasional mainly light spotting, browning and offsetting.) Contemporary mottled calf gilt (lower cover detached from vol. one, upper joint splitting, rubbed and scuffed). Provenance : John Croft Deverell (bookplates). Bentley 460; Brunet II, 1510: "Belle édition"; Lowndes III, p.870. With John Gay's Polly: an Opera. Being the second part of the Beggar's Opera (London, 1729). (3)