Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages on of a kind mid 19th century or so

mid 19th century or so I believe

And made all the better I think by feeling very much a sort of a shell of a car--there are still axels underneath

but fine for resting one's feet

and especially in how glazes obscure or reveal the clay underneath

but it's definitely sturdy

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages on of a kind mid 19th century or soI 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