1840 British Commonplace Book with Beautiful Lettering and Watercolor Maps + 1890s Additions pie wheel or tethered to the television

or tethered to the television

which kept them in great shape

Or put it in your pocket and take it to a rally or a sporting event

but appears to have been stabilized by the framer long ago and is in otherwise very good condition

giving the whole thing a sort of miraculous precariousness

1840 British Commonplace Book with Beautiful Lettering and Watercolor Maps + 1890s Additions pie wheel or tethered to the televisionThe binding here on this 1840 British commonplace book is in rough shape, but the contents are beautiful, with some gorgeous boldly watercolored maps (Oxford, Gloucester, Leicester, as well as Ispahan and Italy), a charming rendering of Mt. Vesuvius, and some very beautiful lettering delivering such good phrases as "Instruction is inimitable" and "Of all moral virtues, patience in best." Photos tell pretty much the whole story! The beautiful pages