Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook black and white dog to me it makes miniature

to me it makes miniature carved marble books (which I do love) seem like minor trinkets in comparison

I used a dry q-tip to get most of the dust off

and I always love an image of girl with her loyal dog companion

15 1/8" x 11 3/8" x 8" t

Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook black and white dog to me it makes miniatureAnother old penmanship practice notebook, as I can never resist these either. Not a ton of pages to this one, and I think one could be forgiven for carefully extracting a page or two to frame I would be disposed to choose the page full of "Without a friend the world is a wilderness," though "Distance is the best remedy against evil disposed men" is pretty great too, and good advice I'd say, and I love how the "men" at the end of the line angle up and