1857 The Boys Storybook by Frances Woodworth with Engraved Illustrations lead weight who found it and many

who found it and many other carvings at a sale in Newburyport

with some bleed through of the tape to the front

and also pretty romantic feeling in this soft cornflower blue

but I was thinking they'd be pretty great for marking a birthday--or two--in this case with only five years between

I LOVE this naive reverse glass painting of flowers

1857 The Boys Storybook by Frances Woodworth with Engraved Illustrations lead weight who found it and manyI have such a hard time resisting a lovely old book with not much short of 200 years on it, and this one is certainly that, copyrighted 1851, with this copy printed in 1857. Inside are a series of five stories that are certainly as good for girls as boys (though perhaps best as a study of mid 19th c. morality and education!), from The Carpenters Boy to Crazy Ann (driven to madness from the loss of her love to a shipwreck) to William Tell, to The