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1613591999
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'The Secret Book of Designs', album bound in red leather with a banded spine, gilt ruling and gold tooling on the inside covers, and on the front "EB[in monogram]-J/1885", containing 220 drawings (several across an opening) and/or inscribed text on the recto, verso or both sides of sheets inlaid into 177 album leaves; also 4 blank album leaves and fixed endpapers; including portrait sketches, designs for mosaics and tapestries, decorative panels, and representations of knights, damsels, angels, sea-nymphs, seraphs, a mermaid, the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Babe of Bethlehem, the Virgin and Child, the Crucifixion, St Michael, St Francis receiving the Stigmata, the Fall of Lucifer, The Last Trump, Adam and Eve, Paolo and Francesca, Andromeda, Charon, Diana and Endymion, Selene and Endymion, Ixion, Sisyphus and Tantalus, the Tree of Forgiveness, the Song of Solomon, plants, birds, dreams, sketches for part of the Briar-Rose series, shields of the Knights of the Round Table, th… (See Merlin record for full description)
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