Pictorial border design by Celia Levetus

Pen and ink pictorial border design, on board, created by Celia Anna Levetus (1874-1936). Surrounds a verse titled 'Sybil' by Edward Lewis Levetus.

Celia Anna Levetus (1874-1936), an illustrator based in Birmingham, whose work included illustrations accompanying a collection of translations of Turkish Fairy and folk tales (1896).

She is to be distinguished from her near name-sake, Celia Levetus (nee Moss) (c 1819-1873), also an illustrator and one-time resident of Birmingham.

Source: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography accessed 6 September 2016 via http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/59417

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Purchased from Ian Hodgkins and Company Ltd, Stroud, Gloucestershire, August 2015