Calligraphy. A manuscript booklet of initial letters, early 20th century, page of explanation and 25 elaborately drawn initial letters, mostly pen & black ink, with traces of pencil, several with red ink, and 1 of coloured pencil, each a single letter to a recto, including 5 on separate sheets of blue paper loosely inserted, some of the letters incorporating human and animal heads or birds, some spotting and offsetting, a few browned, 1 or 2 with splits made by pen, leaf size approximately 12 x 11cm (4.75 x 4.25ins), loosely contained in pigskin covers (Qty: 1) The letters are prefaced by the following inscription: 'These letters are copied from Grandma's Old Manuscript Bible in Verse, by Abraham Shears AD 1616 & given to our Great grandmother by his descendants for some kindness. The Old book was given by Grandma to Frances, for her boy Frank just before she (Mrs. Bickford) died. The letters here were copied by me long before that, Jeannie'.
Calligraphy. A manuscript booklet of initial letters, early 20th century, page of explanation and 25 elaborately drawn initial letters, mostly pen & black ink, with traces of pencil, several with red ink, and 1 of coloured pencil, each a single letter to a recto, including 5 on separate sheets of blue paper loosely inserted, some of the letters incorporating human and animal heads or birds, some spotting and offsetting, a few browned, 1 or 2 with splits made by pen, leaf size approximately 12 x 11cm (4.75 x 4.25ins), loosely contained in pigskin covers (Qty: 1) The letters are prefaced by the following inscription: 'These letters are copied from Grandma's Old Manuscript Bible in Verse, by Abraham Shears AD 1616 & given to our Great grandmother by his descendants for some kindness. The Old book was given by Grandma to Frances, for her boy Frank just before she (Mrs. Bickford) died. The letters here were copied by me long before that, Jeannie'.
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