Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages on of a kind but fine for resting one's

but fine for resting one's feet

a fun and very folky one

or to keep your Scrabble partner from taking forever

5" l x 2" wide x 1 3/8" tall and in very good condition

and great lines on the tulip and its leaves

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages on of a kind but fine for resting one'sI 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