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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

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A manuscript calendar, with literary quotes, photographs and hand-colored illuminations

Inscribed "To Carrie and Tom from 'The Girls' January 1900"

Published: [no place], 1900

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Quarto manuscript inscribed at the first page "To Carrie and Tom from 'The Girls' January 1900". A devotional gift book with a poem or quote for each day of the year, one day to a page, entirely written in very neat cursive hand, 10 pages of which are decorated in watercolor, one of which borders an albumen portrait with 4 additional albumen illustrations pasted down, and 4 pen and ink embellishments. Bound in 3/4 morocco over pebbled cloth, marbled endpapers (spine dry and chipped with significant loss, joints cracked, repaired with cloth tape at hinges and after endpapers, else internally clean, good). 

How many pages total? 365 ?or more because of illustrations?

Written in a single hand? Does it look like one 'girl' did the calligraphy? The other did the 'illustrating'?

Calendar?  Diary? Devotional gift book? A calligraphic manuscript anthology of daily devotional quotes and poems, one per page

  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches
  • Sold By: And Books Too
  • Contact Person: Denis Gouey
  • Country: United States
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 8605425813
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