2 volumes. lxv, 189; xi, 248 pp. Two engraved titles plus 110 plates. (Large 8vo) 10½x6¼, period straight-grained red morocco, blind-stamped and gilt-ruled, spine gilt, all edges gilt and gauffred. First Stockdale Edition.
Tall copy of this handsome edition printed by T. Bensley. The plates are by thirty different engravers (and four unsigned plates): Landseer, J. Chapman, Bell, Eastgate, Bromley, Skelton, Audinet, Martin, Barrett, and others. Bentley mentions that the work was advertised at the end of the second volume of Gay's 1793 Fables as containing William Blake engravings, however there are no signed Blake plates. Armorial bookplates of Sir Joseph Radcliffe, Bart., Rudding Park. Purchased from Myers & Co., 1949. See Bentley, Blake Books, 460 (note).
Condition:
Light wear to joints, spine bands and extremities; few very pale foxmarks to titles and pl. 80, scattered mild marginal spotting, light offsetting from plates to text; fine impressions and a handsome binding, overall about fine.