[Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum] The Making of Viola E-List 15 boards decorated in ink

boards decorated in ink

Bookplate of Polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth

Updike at the Merrymount Press

Gilt lettering to spine

A lovely copy

[Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum] The Making of Viola E-List 15 boards decorated in ink[Thompson, Francis.] The Making of Viola. England, 1920s (very likely Leicester). Illuminated manuscript on vellum of Thompsons lyric beginning Spin, daughter Mary, spin, the text written in a formal Gothic hand in black ink with sectional headings in burnished gold. Opening leaf with a stunning large illuminated initial S in red and burnished gold with lattice diapering and white heightening; small roundel in raised gold at the end of the text