BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 1: No. 1 of 2 works bound together with binder's title: Gay's Fables. Autographs of Walter Falk and Morley Hirsch., BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 2: 26 cm. Armorial bookplate: John Holland., BEIN Ik G252 727 Copy 3: 25 cm. Bookplates of George Herbert Palmer and Chauncey Brewster Tinker., BEIN Tinker 1069: 24 cm. Bound with his The beggar's opera. 3d ed. London, 1729] Imperfect: p.173 wanting. In manuscript on t.p.: "O.F. [i.e. Charles Ford] given me by Mr. Gay 1727.", Signatures: [A]⁴ B-Z⁴ 2A²., and Final p. blank.
BEIR Ik G252 C773: Volumes labeled v.3-v.4. Half-title: Gay's miscellanies, &c. On spine: Gay's postumo[us] works., Signatures: v. 1. [A]² B-Aa⁶ (Aa4v-Aa6 advertisements); v. 2. [A]² B-X⁶ Y⁴., and The volumes are numbered continuously with Gay's Poems on several occasions; it does not, however, appear that Bell and Etherington ever published an edition of that work.
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Printed for John Bell ... and Christopher Etherington, at York
Date of publication from ESTC., Anonymous. By John Gay. - First published as 'Sweet William's farewell to black ey'd Susan'. - Verse - "All in the Downs the fleet was moor'd,". - Includes 'Sweet William's happy return to his dear Susan' and 'Sweet Susan's constancy'. - In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 66. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
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Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, London