1840 British Commonplace Book with Beautiful Lettering and Watercolor Maps + 1890s Additions pie wheel Frame is in very good

Frame is in very good condition

and with quotation written vertically in pencil on the back

giving the whole thing a sort of miraculous precariousness

Elizabeth Eleanor Leonard Stahl at age 92

1840 British Commonplace Book with Beautiful Lettering and Watercolor Maps + 1890s Additions pie wheel Frame is in very goodThe 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