Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook black and white dog Framed: 10" x 7 7/8"

Framed: 10" x 7 7/8" x 3/4"

and with the deep blue of the eyes cast to one side making it seem that this child is witnessing something quite phenomenal

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

4" d and in good vintage condition

my favorite I've seen

Without a Friend The World is a Wilderness, Late 19th C. Penmanship Practice Notebook black and white dog Framed: 10" x 7 7/8"Another 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