Tom O' Bedlam's Song

"From the hag and hungry goblin, that into rags would rend ye,
 And the spirit that stands by the naked man in the book of moons, defend thee.
That from your five sound senses you never be forsaken,
Nor wander from yourself with Tom, abroad to beg your bacon."

61 numbered pages, 24 illustrations
 11/16" x 1 1/8"
 
 The stark and beautiful English folk song mentioned by Shakespeare in KING LEAR, illustrated with (mostly)  Elizabethan woodcuts that have been digitally altered. These lines from the final verse give a haunting, otherworldly thrill:
"...by a knight of ghosts and shadows I summoned am to tourney
Ten leagues beyond the wide world's end: methinks it is no journey."

Bound in black lizard patterned paper, with a spine of black kid leather with raised bands, and decorative endpapers. There are paper titles pasted to the front and back covers.

Also available in miniature here: Tom O' Bedlam's Song

This product was added to our catalog  October 24, 2009