12mo. xvi, 228pp. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved title page, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Handsomely bound in contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting black morocco lettering-piece, marbled edges. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked ownership inscriptions to blank front endpapers, slight loss to margins of leaf EE1.

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