1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving vintage tin rattle and which appears to have

and which appears to have been finely carved from one piece of wood

revealed only those worthy of the knowledge

6 1/4" tall

it is dated 1/1/40 at bottom right

with a few small hairline cracks around the neck of the crane on side 1 and one scrape to the surface of the lower section of the planter on side 2

1790 Common Gordius (Hair Worm) F. P Nodder Book Plate Engraving vintage tin rattle and which appears to haveThis just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical two looping knots of worm at top and bottom, and then one outstretched across the middle. The text underneath reads London, England Nov. 1790, by F. P Nodder & Co. No. 15 Brewer Street. Frederick Polydore Nodder (1770 c. 1800) was an English illustrator, engraver and painter, who illustrated George Shaw's periodical The Naturalist's Miscellany, which is where this bookplate came from, and