  A multiparameter generalization of the Bailey pair is defined in such a way
as to include as special cases all Bailey pairs considered by W. N. Bailey in
his paper, "Identities of the Rogers-Ramanujan type," [Proc. London Math. Soc.
(2), 50 (1949), 421--435]. This leads to the derivation of a number of elegant
new Rogers-Ramanujan type identities.
