Manuscript.

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Manuscript.
Five Little Pigs, circa 1883,
21pp. calligraphic manuscript in sepia ink, with six full-page pen, ink and watercolour illustrations, and numerous sepia line drawings, some full-page, watermarked Whatman 1883, sheet size approximately 22 x 28cm (8.75 x 11.25ins), together with a watercolour sketch for one of the illustrations loosely inserted, loosely contained in original wrappers with watercolour illustration on front cover, edge-frayed, spotted and slightly dusty, oblong 4to, together with The Legend of the Black Forest, late 19th century, calligraphic title-page and 7ff. calligraphic manuscript mounted on thick card leaves, with a number of blank leaves following, each leaf with decorative initials and border, some illuminated, in the style of a grotesque medieval manuscript, featuring bizarre creatures with elements of both the human and animal, some spotting and marks, image size approximately 21 x 13.5cm (8.25 x 5.25ins), leaf size 29 x 21.5cm (11.5 x 8.5ins), cream moiré endpapers (marked), upper hinge split, original gilt decorated dark green morocco, titled on upper cover, extremities rubbed, joints slightly splitting at ends, small folio, plus another late 19th century manuscript entitled The Orvieto Potsherds, A Legend of Urbs Vetus, 1891, comprising 37pp., written in a neat hand in black ink, rough-trimmed, stitching broken and page block loose in original wrappers, with watercolour title and vignettes on upper cover, some soiling and edge-wear, slim 4to

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