2-652-035 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Illustration from poem A Beckett's Troth., c1860-1875, (1923). Gilbert a Becket. Romantic story of a 12th-century crusader, Gilbert Ó Becket, who is rescued by a Saracen woman. She falls in love with Becket and follows him to England. From British Book Illustration - Yesterday and To-day edited by Geoffrey Holme. [The Studio, Ltd., London, 1923]