Early manuscript copy of Sands's Metamorphosis or, A Transformation of Pictures with Poetical Explanations, with charming hand colored drawings

by Benjamin Sands

$12,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

8 hand-colored drawings, within floral borders, with manuscript verse. On a 13 x 15-1/2 inch folded sheet of laid paper, folded to four 6-3/8 x 3-7/8 inch panels, each panel with upper and lower flaps. Repairs at folds on verso, minor staining. Welch 1163.1-39, pp. 387-96; McGarth, This Magical Book p. 9 ref ; Young, Drawn to Enchant, p. 195. Item #367060 Published at a time when children's literature was still almost entirely moral and

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