A cloth-bound book of 36 pages of artist?s drawing paper made by Sir Edward Burne-Jones for his daughter Margaret, and illustrated for his grand-daughter Angela. 14 full-page drawings and a title page The second leaf is inscribed: A book of plain paper given by EBJ to his daughter. She took it with her when she married and went to Young St, and when her little daughter Angela was 18 months old EBJ began making drawings in it for her; when he came to see her. The third leaf is inscribed and dated by Burne-Jones: Margaret AUG:MDCCCLXXXV. and addressed: 27 Young St. Kensington Square W. London 1888. The finished drawings individually inscribed: Sunrise, dated April 16th 1891 Portrait of her own tiger dated October 16 1891 A Farmyard, dated Dec 4. 1891 Cats School dated November 21 1892 Seminary for More Advanced Baby Dragons, Hisstry School and Jogruffy School dated December 5th Dragons Home, dated December 18th 1892 The Wonders of the World and first of the Tower of Babel The City of Brass The North Sea The Sphinx of the Desert The Well At The World?s End The Palace of King Solomon The Wooden Horse of Troy The Image That Sings At Sunrise Fifteen pages are titled, indicating planned subjects without designs: The Seven Hills of Rome; Great Leviathan; The Dead Sea; The Horse Of Brass; The Marvels That Vergil Made In The City Of Rome: And First Of The Image With The Mirror; The Ship On The Wall; The Hidden Treasure This Is The Fourth Marvel Of Vergil The Enchanter; The Last Man; The Book Of Terrors Of Waste Lands And First Of Heath-Worms; Of Basilisks; Ogres; Heath Horrors; The Mist-Walker; The Wer-Wolf; The Fen-Ganger. Sir Edward Burne-Jones had a remarkable affection for children. Angela, later the novelist Angela Thirkell, was the daughter of Margaret Mackail, the artist's much loved daughter. Thus she was worthy of more personal efforts than the drawings lavished on other young friends such as the series of drawings that he bestowed on Amy Gaskell, daughter of the artist's great friend and confidant Helen Gaskell, or on Katie Lewis, daughter of the artist's lawyer, Sir George Lewis and his wife, Elizabeth. The designs in this volume reflect themes from Burne-Jones?s long career and personal life. The first drawings are as whimsical as any that Burne-Jones made for children, with rural subjects inspired by his life in Rottingdean in Sussex and baby dragons which gently mock those mythical creatures in his Perseus cycle of the 1870s. The Sphinx, an icon of dangerous femininity (unparalleled beauty and razor-sharp claws), was, in the 1890s, a fashionable replacement for his 1870s symbol, the Briar Rose (the most exquisite of flowers with prolific piercing thorns).