Author: LE GRAND, (D'Aussey, Pierre Jean-Baptiste:
Title: Fabliaus or Tales, Abridged from French Manuscripts of the XIIth and XIIIth Centuries By M. Le Grand, Selected and Translated into English Verse. With a Preface and Notes. Vo. 1. [All Published].
Description: London: Printed by W. Bulmer...Sold by R. Faulder..., 1796. Large 8vo, 230 x 162 mms., pp. [iv], xxxv [xxxvi blank] [3] 4 - 280, engraved wooduct on title-page, 24 head and tale woodcuts, finely bound, by C. Hering with his pink ticket on the upper margin of the verso of the front free end-paper, in contemporary straight grain red morocco, double gilt borders on covers, with gilt fleurons at each corner, gilt spine, all edges gilt; front joint very slightly rubbed, but a very good and attractive copy with the autograph "J. [or S] Hafford" on the top margin of the title-page, armorial bookplate of Viscount Granville, probably Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Granville (1773 - 1846). The dedicatory verses by the translator are signed: G. L. W. [i.e. Gregory Lewis Way]; the preface and notes are by G. Ellis. One of the owners has added text to the initials in order to complete the surnames in this copy. The woodcuts are by John and Thomas Bewick. The work was originally issued in two volumes, with Bulmer printing 750 copies of the first volume and 1000 of the second volume; the first volume was re-issued, as above, in a printing of 250 copies to correct the discrepancy. The notice in the British Critic described it as "beautiful in its form, as well as pleasing in its contents...the typography belongs to the first class of Bulmerian work and the vignette ornaments are...executed on wood by the Bewicks." Tattersfield: Thomas Bewick: The Complete Illustrative Work (2011), TB 2.167.

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