46 leaves of fine hand-made paper. Pages numbered lightly in pencil. Most pages contain calligraphic manuscript writing in black, red or blue ink. Illuminated with initials, as well as 1 larger tempera-colored illustration, and a smaller watercolor vignette. 11½x9½, half-calf with boards, and gilt-lettered spine which reads the title (above).

Extraordinary practice book belonging to the second-generation arts and crafts designer, calligrapher, and illustrator Alice Maud Charlotte Hindson. Examples of her work during her studies with Noel Rooke, and shortly before she served as the Secretary of the Guild of Scribes and Illuminators from 1928 to 1931. Pp. 9-10 feature a hand-painted illustration of a medieval battle, and the beginning of the passage with two vignettes.