Gay's Fables [graphic].as the act directs, Novr. 17th, 1787.engAn engraved writing sheet illustrated with seven scenes from Gay’s Fables, each titled above and with rhyming couplet below. At head, and the largest scene, is ‘The Shepherd and the Philosopher’; six smaller scenes form the right and left borders below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprintTitle engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher."