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Title: [Poetical miscellany].
Creator: Hervey, James, 1714-1758.
Parnell, Thomas, 1679-1718.
Gay, John, 1685-1732. Fables. 1727.
Contributor: Hillington, Joseph, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: [not before 1727]
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript.
Scope/Content: Manuscript poetical miscellany composed sometime after 1727, containing primarily John Gay's Fables (nos. VIII-L) in addition to Thomas Parnell's "The Hermit" and "Resignation" by James Hervey. The volume appears to have been written at least two different hands by collaborators working at the same time to copy Gay's Fables.
Condition: Bound in original limp vellum; defective backstrip.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Commonplace books
Poems
Poetical miscellanies
Ownership inscriptions (Provenance)
Extent: [188] p., bound ;23 cm.
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1k02r
MS.1984.002
Language: English
eng
Subject: English poetry--18th century.
Fables, English--18th century.
Place: England
Provenance: Front free endpaper: "Joseph Hillington."
Location: CLUW

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