Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers stuffed cloth dog so seems right to keep

so seems right to keep them together as a duo now

1960s or so for sure

actually reminding me a bit of his portrait of Gertrude Stein--as if a this were a portrait of woman looking toward modernity

Left: 4 1/2" t x 2 3/8" w x 2 1/2" d

Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers stuffed cloth dog so seems right to keepAs early a French secret compartment book box as I've come across 1752! and quite a large one, with the most gorgeous marbled endpapers . And, a volume about Roman History, specifically the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, feels pretty apt for the moment. (This is the third volume in a series written by Charles Rollin and Jean Baptiste Louis Crvier spanning the period from the founding of Rome to the The Battle of Actium, 31 BC, leading to the end