Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages kindergarten history like a mask or a

like a mask or a basket

I like both sides but perhaps am a bit partial to the graphite-drawn one

and a sky blue painted interior

--and also for the crustiness of the surface now

and even better that it should be used to spell out BARBER SHOP in the absolute most no-fuss (and to my eye absolutely perfect) manner possible

Very Beautiful Object, 1830 Pennsylvania German Catechism Book with Gorgeous Papered Cover and Striped Pages kindergarten history like a mask or aI 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