The title and letter-press of the two issues are identical, and the three errata on A2 verso are uncorrected.
GAY, John.—(I.) Two Epistles; One, to the Right Honourable Richard Earl of Burlington; The Other, to a Lady. By Mr. Gay. London, Printed for Bernard Lintot, . . . Price 6d. [n. d.] (II.) An Epistle to a Lady, Occaſion'd by the Arrival of Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales. The Fifth Edition. London, Printed for Bernard Lintot, . . . [n. d.] 8vo, red straight-grain morocco, gilt fillets, gilt edges, by The Club Bindery.
A2-D2 in eights, and two leaves of advertisement, D3 and D4, title on A2.
GAY, John.—Poems on Several Occasions. By Mr. John Gay. . . . London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, . . . and Bernard Lintot, . . . M D CC XX. 4to, two volumes in one, red morocco, gilt fillets on the side, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
First edition, with frontispiece by W. Kent, and two other plates. The pagination is continuous.
GAY, John.—Poems on several occasions. By Mr. John Gay . . . London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, . . . MDCCLXVII. 12mo, two volumes, red levant morocco, uncut edges, by The Club Bindery.
Large paper copy. Nine plates engraved by Fourdrinier and Isaac Taylor after the designs of Du Guernier.
GAY, John.—(I.) Fables. By Mr. Gay [mask vignette by P. F.] London: Printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts. MDCCXXVII. (II.) Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the Second. [vignette portrait] London: Printed for J. and P. Knapton, in Ludgate-Street; and T. Cox, under the Royal-Exchange. MDCCXXXVIII. 4to, two volumes, brown levant morocco, gilt back, side panels, gilt edges, by Rivière.
First edition.
Volume I contains a mask vignette on the title-page by Fourdrinier, an introductory vignette and vignettes to each Fable (50) by Fourdrinier, Van der Gucht, and others, from the designs of Kent and Wootton; Volume II has a frontispiece by Scotin, the monument of Gay, a vignette of Gay on the title-page by Scotin, and the illustrations (16) are full-page, by the same engraver after the designs of Gravelot.