1843 "Bread Book" milking stool amplifying a sense of bareness

amplifying a sense of bareness (as well as bearness

with one black spot in the sky and a line on the right lower side of her dress

More on reverse

There is one chip on the lip that shows the same color as the body

I especially like that he has one extra large black spot at the middle of his forehead surrounding a nail

1843 "Bread Book" milking stool amplifying a sense of barenessI bought this one just for the cover, with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper, which is darkened by stains across half of it, perhaps from oil spilled while baking! it appears definitely to have been the log order book of a baker, as the handwritten lists inside are for cakes and pies and crackers and loaves of bread by the dozen. Dated 1843 with a mix of filled and blank pages and, as an object, quite teeming