Fascinating Mid 19th C. British "Child's Playbook" with All Sorts of Elaborate Games squatting figure steel I believe

steel I believe

and would work as a wall-hung vase or a small planter

really only visible if viewed at several times magnification

first hand

nailed on to the body

Fascinating Mid 19th C. British "Child's Playbook" with All Sorts of Elaborate Games squatting figure steel I believeI found this one in a rare book store in Portland this past week and have become rather obsessed with it! There is no title page or publisher's information inside so I'm not certain of the date, but between the hand laid type and the engravings and the embossed spine, I'm guessing 1840s or 50s, and British. What's fascinating is the very elaborate and often quite fabulous nature of the games described mostly parlor type games that range from an early