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4:00 AM PT - Nov 6th, 2008

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Calligraphic Ms.- Folsom(Rose)Time's Best Jewel

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Calligraphic Manuscript.- Folsom (Rose, calligrapher) Time's Best Jewel: 5 Sonnets of Shakespeare,
written in pen and ink on pale brown Twinrocker Chapin paper, each sonnet in a different script, bound in black calf-backed boards, by Johannes Hyltoft, title in ink on upper cover, uncut, preserved in black cloth drop-back box, oblong 4to, 1994.

***The colophon reads, "This book was inspired by the copybooks of the 17th c. writing masters, which illustrated the various scripts they had to offer...".

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