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Posts tagged Thomas Ingoldsby.

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The Jackdaw of Rheims
Thomas Ingoldsby. Early 20th Century.

10 leaves. Text in black ink with red, green and blue initial letters. Elaborate pen & ink illustrated borders on title page and facing leaf; two large initial letters, one colored and one with a pen & ink illustration; two small illustrations and a large tail-piece vignette also in pen & ink; other decorations in green and red throughout. 29x22 cm. (11½x8¾”) bound in full red morocco, gilt illustrations on front and rear, spine lettered in gilt, calf-backed clamshell box.

A lovely illustrated manuscript of the classic Jackdaw of Rheims from the Ingoldsby Legends. A very skillfully rendered manuscript with remarkable pen & ink drawings, the artisan unfortunately unidentified. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere.