ON HOLD 1810-1849 British Chemist/Medic's Notebook Full of Far Ranging Recipes woman sewing The hand-done decoration around the

The hand-done decoration around the exterior (etched/engraved it looks to me) is certainly Arts and Crafts in style

and interesting

though I might want to keep it out all of the time

and was awarded $25

Or made as part of a maquette for an opera set design

ON HOLD 1810-1849 British Chemist/Medic's Notebook Full of Far Ranging Recipes woman sewing The hand-done decoration around theSo much fun finding and spending some time with this one, started in 1810 by a Giles Case and continued by Robert Case, his son one assumes, with a second date of 1849. These Cases appear to have lived on Buckham Farm, on the outskirts of Beaminster in Dorset, England, and seem to have been trained to some extent in chemistry and medicine, too but what makes this especially interesting reading is the far ranging variety of instructions and recipes