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21. Calligraphic Manuscript.- Folsom (Rose, calligrapher ) Time’s Best Jewel: 5 Sonnets of Shakespeare, written in pen and ink on pale brown Twinrocker Chapin paper, each sonnet in a different script, bound in black calf-backed boards, by Johannes Hyltoft, title in ink on upper cover, uncut, preserved in black cloth drop-back box, oblong 4to, 1994.

est. £200 – £300

The colophon reads, “This book was inspired by the copybooks of the 17th c. writing masters, which illustrated the various scripts they had to offer...”

Sold for £240
Sale 667, 6th November 2008


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