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Kyd
1856 or 7-1937
A Handful of Cards / for all lovers of the / Works of / Charles Dickens / A series of fifty original / Designs by "Kyd."
design area: approx. 3 5/16 x 2 1/2 inches (85 x 62 mm); on leaves: approx. 8 15/16 x 5 1/2 inches (227 x 139 mm)
Gift of Norman H. Strouse.
1974.22
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Watermark: none.
Book containing fifty-one drawings: title page and fifty drawings in the form of playing cards, quartered to illustrate four characters from Dickens' work.
Inscription:
Each drawing signed "Kyd" and inscribed with the name of work and characters represented.
Provenance:
Norman H. Strouse.
Associated names:
Strouse, Norman H., former owner.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 158.
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