Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages T.R. Rerc There are holes on either

There are holes on either end of the top edge that would hold screw-in hooks

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such amazing --and handsome

from the cross around her neck and lace collar

I've had a couple of sets of very early Milton Bradley Froebel kindergarten blocks in the shop

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages T.R. Rerc There are holes on eitherI like all different sorts of books for all different sorts of reasons, but in the case of this one it is completely about its formal properties most immediately that hand printed paper cover, making it seem like a wall paper box of the very early and most beautiful variety. (It looks almost like wax resist printing in appearance, with the natural cream of the paper revealed as circles through the applied golden honey color of the cover.) And then