A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF LOIDIS AND ELMETE

A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF LOIDIS AND ELMETE, Thomas Dunham Whittaker, manuscript copy by Yorkshire Antiquary THOMAS RYLEY ROBINSON pp 404, 94 A pen facsimile of the 1816 edition of Whitaker. Robinson's note to colophon states: that the feat was completed between 1873 and 1875, 'a task all the more difficult because of an injury to the right thumb which rendered it unable to be used in the formation of even one letter'. Robinson reproduces original page layouts and line drawings from Whitaker's 1816 edition with the original engravings bound. Thomas Ryley Robinson was a poet and antiquarian living in Dewsbury