1870 Rare First Edition - The Royal Illuminated Book of Legends Narrated in Antient Ballad Form. Illustrated by Marcus Ward, Illuminator of the Queen.This beautiful book has been sold Please search for other similar books from our bookseller friends! (Descriptio Author: Marcus Ward, Illuminator of the Queen. Title: The Royal Illuminated Book of Legends. Narrated in Antient Ballad Form. With Appropriate music, Arranged in an easy style for voice and pianoforte, suited to little folks or great folks, and minstrels of all decrees. Each story, or legend, illustrated by a set of brilliant pictures,

and includes personal letters from her

Pages: 375 pages

Size: 9 "X 6 "

no date (1827)

Old Father Christmas and 6 other tales

This is a Victorian-era Christmas poem

her husband Robert Browning insisted they were the best sequence of English-language sonnets since Shakespeare's time and urged her to publish them

Robert Dillamore Fyson whose husband managed Trinity Hall Farm in Fordham where he worked as a laborer

which were combined with the use of watercolor

including the wealthy and corrupt Trimalchio and the sorceress Circe

she won the second Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the professional children's librarians

Pages: 183-211 pages