Thomas Prichard Rossiter's The legend of Breakneck, undated, not after 1868

Original manuscript of the poem "The Legend of Breakneck," written and illustrated by artist Thomas Prichard Rossiter. Manuscript contains 67 full and half page black and white illustrations executed in ink wash. Pasted onto the second front fly leaf is a letter written to Rossiter by George William Curtis, dated Jan. 1, 1868, thanking him for the opportunity to examine the illustrations to the Breakneck legend. Bound in brown leather with a hand tooled decorative title frame executed in brown and green on the cover. Bound by Edith Rossiter Bevan and dated and initialed by her on the bottom border inside the back cover: "19 . E . H. R. 09".