[Rarebooks] FS: "Illuminated manuscript" for children

[Bob Petrilla]

Bates, H.D.  FRANCIS AND HIS PIGEONS [original book], 1903.  Manuscript.
(37)pp, colophon.  Typewritten; hand-colored decorative initials
throughout, illuminated title-page.  Bound in tan calf and boards, title
and author's name gilt-stamped on cover; old tape repairs to fore-edges of
two leaves.  7" x 5".  Very Good condition.

Colophon: "Written for MARJORY, by her papa, at Christmas time in the year
nineteen hundred and three." Papa wrote a fantasy adventure of an orphaned
boy, his white horse, his ten white pigeons, and their adventures among
animals of the forest, an English king, &c.  $200.00

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