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The "Last man" - vide annexed plate : autograph manuscript signed with initials : place not specified, undated [after 1829] .

BIB_ID
394390
Accession number
MA 13224
Creator
Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849.
Display Date
undated [after 1829] .
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Paper watermarked 1829.
Poem probably inspired by the drawing of the same title by G. Jones, an engraving of which by Robert Wallis appeared, along with literary contributions by Barton, in the 1828 volume of The Amulet, Or Christian and Literary Remembrancer.
Provenance
Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Autograph manuscript of the poem in six stanzas of four lines each; first line: I would not give one fin to be / the last man left alive.