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BICKHAM, JOHN. Fables and Other Short Poems, collected from the Most Celebrated English Authors, for the Practice and Amusement of Young Gentlemen
BICKHAM, JOHN. Fables and Other Short Poems, collected from the Most Celebrated English Authors, for the Practice and Amusement of Young Gentlemen and Ladies, in the Art of Writing, with Alphabets & Copies in All the Hands now practis'd in Great Britain. Illustrations and calligraphic text entirely engraved throughout by John Bickham and George Bickham, Jr. [4], 32; 20; 1-6, 8, 10 (of 12); 23; 9 leaves. 8vo, modern cloth, top of spine chipped; contents heavily toned with some marginal foxing, outer margins trimmed occasionally entering text or calligraphic flourishes. London: Thos. Cobb, [1733?]
- Notes: first collected edition, combining John Bickham's abridgment of Gay's Fables, originally published in 3 separate parts in 1727, with a drawing manual by George Bickham, Jr. (bound here between parts 2 and 3 of the Fables and lacking plates 7, 9, 11 and 12) and currency conversion tables (at the end). Harvard/Becker 199.
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