[Fine Binding | Frank Garrett] Illuminated Address on Vellum

[Illuminated Retirement Address]. "To Alderman Thomas Oswald Williams". Calligraphic manuscript address on vellum, with a large illustrated frame decorated with burnished gold and other colors surrounding the addressee's name, facing a page of black and red calligraphy, with two illuminated initials, also done in burnished gold. Presented by the Birmingham City Council, at a meeting on 10th November 1924. Addressed to the retiring Chairman of the Council, Thomas Oswald Williams. 6 vellum leaves, with manuscript on 2 leaves. Bound in crushed green morocco by "F. Garrett Binder" (signed in gilt by the binder to rear turn-in). Covers with gilt double fillet border, inner panel filled with a diapered gilt floral design in the Arts & Crafts style, including the central initials "TOW", and dissected with inlaid red dots. Single gilt fillet on turn-ins. Measures approx. 9" x 11.5". Fading and rubbing to boards, spine darkened and worn. Frank Garrett was a noted bookbinder associated with