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

by Benjamin Sands

$10,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

8 boldly hand-colored drawings with manuscript verse. On a 12-7/8 x 16 sheet of laid paper folded to four panels sizes vary, approximately 6-3/8 x 3-1/8 , each with upper and lower flaps. Lower flap of first drawing lacking. Light foxing and some faint staining, edgewear and tears along folds, nearly split along central vertical fold; images remain vivid. Welch 1163.1-39, pp. 387-96; McGarth, This Magical Book p. 9 ref ; Young, Drawn to Enchant, p. 195. Item

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