Thomas Trevelyon

He spelled his surname "Trevelyon" in the Folger Miscellany and "Trevilian" in the Wormsley Great Book. Other than his own calligraphic rendering of his name, nothing approaching a portrait of Thomas Trevelyon exists. The drawing entitled "The author's apostrophe to the reader" once thought to be a self-portrait is, in fact, a stock figure illustrating a text bearing the title "The author's apostrophe to the reader" that Trevelyon copied out. In 2000 Susan Shaw's Merrion Press created for the Roxburghe Club a facsimile copy of "The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian" in two volumes edited by Nicolas Barker. The book was to be given to the club's members and sold. A copy of Shaw's facsimile book in 2020 was on sale for £2,200. The seller claimed that it is "perhaps" the "greatest monument to the arts of the book at the turn of the twentieth century".

• Name — Thomas Trevelyon • Born — circa 1548 • Other Names — Thomas Trevilian • Occupation — Embroidery pattern drawer, calligrapher • Years Active — 1603-1616 • Known for — The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608; The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian