Author: [FOULIS PRESS]. GAY (John):
Title: Fables by the Late Mr. Gay. In Two Volumes.
Description: Glasgow, Printed for Alexander M'Kenzie [no date], [?1755]. 2 volumes in 1. 12mo, 160 x 92 mms., pp. viii, [9] - 192, with X2 paginated 164 on recto and 163 on verso, registration continuous throughout, volume 2 with half-title only, 19th century half calf, gilt spine, marbled boards. A very good copy. The printer, Andrew and Robert Foulis, is identified by the typeface. In this issue, page 35 is not signed E2, but in other respects it conforms to ESTC T13842 (BL and NLS), without the printing features identified in ESTC T18340. The Foulis brothers printed Gay's Fables under their own imprint in 1761, as well as Poems on Several Occasions in 1751. Not in Gaskell.

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