GAY, POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS, 1720, Quarto, Subscribers List, Engraved Plate, Panelled Calf

John Gay, Poems on Several Occasions; London, Jacob Tonson and Bernard Lintot, 1720; 2 vols. in one, quarto; contemporary panelled calf with gilt-tooled spine compartments and raised bands; frontispiece engraving. Includes subscriber list and general title pages printed in red and black.

Moderately worn; boards scuffed with edge and corner wear; front joint cracked; spine ends chipped; endpapers toned and torn near inner hinge; early ink ownership inscriptions and newspaper clipping tipped to endleaves.