Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages T.R. Rerc I've had a couple of

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

I think it's a really great drawing portraying a boxing match that feels very intimate and sensual

features long tapered teeth

but surely some combination of paper and ink and glue or varnish

4" tall x 2 1/8" in diameter

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages T.R. Rerc I've had a couple ofI 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