[Illuminated Manuscript | Arts & Crafts] Devotional / Artist's Book Not on Ebay bound circa 1970s

bound circa 1970s

"Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842–1904) was an influential Boston artist and civic leader

recounting the stories of Cleopatra

First American edition

37 leaves of black & white plates on glossy paper

[Illuminated Manuscript | Arts & Crafts] Devotional / Artist's Book Not on Ebay bound circa 1970sDevotional manuscript of the Creation, the Creed, and modern spiritual quotations, with watercolor miniatures of Swiss and French views. N. p. (probably Switzerland France England), c. 1910 1920. 14pp., stiff cream paper written and illustrated on rectos only, each page framed in ink and filled with a combination of hand lettered text and miniature watercolor panels; text in English and French. Unsigned, but very clearly the work of a single,