243pp, [1]. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary tree-calf, later expertly rebacked, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece, gilt. A trifle rubbed. Offsetting to title, scattered spotting.

An early nineteenth-century edition of poet John Gay's (1685-1732) perennially popular Fables, composed for the youngest son of George II, six year old Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.