Very Beautiful 1811 Hand-printed Paper Covered German Catechism Book with Fratur Lettered Nameplate walter addison pottery And turns out the Gichner

And turns out the Gichner Ironworks

once I began reading through the 20 or so pages that are filled

rather life-like presence

PA and imagine dates to around 1900 or just a bit earlier

Very Beautiful 1811 Hand-printed Paper Covered German Catechism Book with Fratur Lettered Nameplate walter addison pottery And turns out the GichnerThis, and a second PA German catechism book listed next, are all about book as object for me namely about the gorgeous hand printed paper on the cover boards, and, in the case of this one, about the ink lettering on the endpages. On this one the long edges of the pages were painted, too. I simply do not have it in me not at least temporarily take stewardship of books like this. The book was published in Reading PA in 1811, and the Daniel Boos who