Publication Place: London / Subject (Topic): Fables / Access: Public

Published / Created:: as the act directs, Novr. 17th, 1787.
Call Number:: 787.11.17.01++
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: 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 below. A garlanded oval, designed to carry a hand-inserted date-line, is engraved at the foot above the imprint
Description:: Title engraved at top of plate, on either side of the image of "The shepherd and the philosopher.", Watermark: [...]anshaw., and Sheet annotated in ink with the name 'Thomas Harbidge' and the date 'Decr. 19. 1787' in the blank oval at foot. Written in manuscript in black ink at the center of the sheet are three passages, beginning with 'Education either makes or mars us, and governments as well as private families, are concerned in it’s [sic] consequences, abcde’, and concluding with 'Good books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age, they support us under solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves'.
Publisher:: Published by Robt. Sayer, map, chart & printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street
Subject (Name):: Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):: Fables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Gay's Fables [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1752]
Call Number:: File 763 752 Ae254
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Abstract:: Illustration to a poetic version of Aesop’s fable of a man with an older and a younger wife; the younger plucked out all his grey hairs, and the older, the dark ones with the inevitable result
Alternative Title:: Aesop's fables. Selections. English, Man and his 2 wives, Man and his two wives, and Man & his two wives
Description:: Title engraved below image., Plate from: The Lady's curiosity: or, Weekly Apollo. London : Printed by C. Sympson, no. 17 (1752)., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text above image. Missing text supplied from a more perfect impression., Fourteen lines of verse engraved beneath title: A man whose years were in decline, / Had got two wives. One was a fine / Young airy thing who sung & danc'd; / The other grave, in age advanc'd, ..., Two additional lines of verse at bottom, beneath the heading "Application": Thus he that does to woman trust / Is shure to come off with the worst., "Fab. XXXII."--Above image., and Laid down on blue paper.
Publisher:: C. Sympson
Subject (Topic):: Adultery, Fables, Spouses, and Windows
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The man & his 2 wives [graphic].

Published / Created:: [1828?]
Call Number:: 828.00.00.43+
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Titles from text above each design., Six designs on one plate, each individually titled., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:: E. Lacey, 76, St. Pauls
Subject (Name):: Gay, John, 1685-1732.
Subject (Topic):: Fables
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > The poet and the rose The Peacock, turkey and the goose ; The sick man and the angel ; The two owl's and the sparrow ; The goat without the beard ; The snail and the butterfly. [graphic]

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