BIB_ID
432289
Accession number
MA 2393
Creator
Payne, John Howard, 1791-1852.
Display Date
Place of writing not identified, undated.
Credit line
Purchased, 1965.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
Notes in an unknown hand on the versos of both fables attest to them being in Payne's autograph.
Provenance
Purchased from the Seven Gables Bookshop, 23 April 1965.
Summary
Consisting of two fables in verse: "The Herdsman and the Snake" and "The Wild Boar and the Blood Hound" (also identified as "Fable the Forty Seventh" and "Fable the Forty Ninth," respectively). In an introductory poem, Payne describes the first fable as "a free translation."
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