Bellerophon Books

This coloring book includes line drawings from glorious bronze and terracotta figures of the kingdom of IFE, 11th - 15th centuries, with their great Onis (kings) and high ladies of the court. Ife is well known as the city of 401 deities (also known as irumole or orishas). It is said that every day of the year the traditional worshippers celebrate a festival of one of these deities. Ife gave its name to this art. Ife art includes terra-cotta and bronze heads and busts, stone sculpture, stools show more and religious pieces carved in quartz, monumental granite monoliths, statues of humans and animals. show less

I own several editions of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, including the Bellerophon coloring book, which includes the prologue and the original Caxton woodcuts. The coloring book originally included a phonograph record of the prologue being read in Middle English, but mine is long gone. As a piece of prose, the prologue is unsurpassed in the introduction of characters to the reader. The coloring book includes many horses, so make sure you have a lot of brown colors on hand.

A humorous look at infamous women throughout the ages with short biographies and black & white drawings of the ladies in question.