Antique Book-WOOD ENGRAVING-FABLES OF MR. JOHN GAY-Bewick-Gay-1797

Price: € 292,50

Subject: York, published by Wilson, Spence and Mawman., 1797. 8vo: 252 pp. Contemporary full brown calf with marbled endpapers. Hugo 14.

Condition: Very good, given age. The binding skillfully restored, a new spine and board edges, with the old front and rear laid down.

Medium: 67 b/w illustrations and 33 tailpieces in wood engraving, and an engraved frontispiece by Ralph Beilby. Thomas Bewick.

Size (in cm): 8vo: 9.7 x 15.3 cm.

Size (in inch): 8vo: 3.8 x 6 inch.

Part Number: 55384

Location: ZL3b

Antique Book, titled: 'The fables of mr. John Gay.', by: John Gay. A collection of 15 fables in verse by John Gay.

Artists and Engravers: Author(s): John Gay. John Gay (1685-1732) was a poet and playwright from London. Illustrated by: Thomas Bewick (1753-1828) was born in Prudhoe, near Newcastle upon Tyne. He would remain in this region for the rest of his live. Bewick worked as a woodengraver. His many very finely executed designs and bookillustrations are highly appreciated. Bewick is seen as the man who started the great production of woodengraving in the 19th. century.