Marmaduke Multiply, Scarce 1845 Child's Book with Handmade Cover and Hand-colored Engravings painted decorated carved box 5" diameter at the base

5" diameter at the base

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The multi-color alphabet across the top makes me imagine it once held a trove of bone letters (if only it did still

the rustic and welcoming environments in which the foods had unrepeatable flavors and the stories were born to become proverbs and nursery rhymes to be transmitted for centuries

but this one is special because I have have identified the subject and even more so because I am fairly certain this painting of him was done by now widely renowned early 19th c

Marmaduke Multiply, Scarce 1845 Child's Book with Handmade Cover and Hand-colored Engravings painted decorated carved box 5" diameter at the baseI'm a real sucker for early children's books, though I hold myself back much of time this one though, a 1845 copy of Marmaduke Multiply, published by Munroe and Francis, Boston and considered an "important" child's book, was way too good to resist and is also a rarity. This copy was given a handmade paper cover with title cut out and adhered as an oval to the front, plus gorgeous hand marbled grain painted paper covering the spine. Inside, 71 pages of