[Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum] The Making of Viola E-List 15 The Liverpool annual

The Liverpool annual

Updike at the Merrymount Press

275 West 57th Street" (Tidcombe)

translated from the original Italian by Ashbee

accented with significant gilt stippling

[Illuminated Manuscript on Vellum] The Making of Viola E-List 15 The Liverpool annual[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