An 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 belo...
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher."
Publisher:
Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Four watercolors depicting scenes from accounts published in periodicals of the early 1820s, including The Mirror of Literature, Amusement and Instruction (volume I, 1822-23), John Long's Voyages and Travels of an Indian Interpreter and Trader (1791)....
