Fables

Binding. Gay (John) With a memoir by Austin Dobson Engraved portrait-frontispiece by Richard H.A. Willis after Sir Godfrey Kneller, woodcut title-vignette, title printed in red and black  Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.,  1882 First Edition with this memoir    Full green morocco gilt, sides with French fillet, spine in compartments with raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered in gilt, compartments elaborately decorated with double fillet enclosing flowers, leaves, circles and stars, turn-ins with elaborate rolls and fillets, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut, by Bedford A little foxing at beginning, otherwise a very nice copy; inscription on fly-leaf   

Price: £200