Accession number
PML 146639, p. 462b
Creator
B. D.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Signed "Your sincere well wisher B D."
Inserted as the second plate after p. 462 (i.e. plate "b") in v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Inserted as the second plate after p. 462 (i.e. plate "b") in v. 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of Henry Morley's Memoirs of Batholomew Fair (London : Chapman and Hall, 1859), see PML 146639.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 31 x 19.1 cm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
A humorous manuscript in the form of a letter purportedly addressed to a bear from a bear master who has recently suffered the loss of his trained bear "Bessey", offering to engage the recipient as a performer to appear on the stage "dressed as a gentleman" in the company of a fox.
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