J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions vintage disney " And then on the

" And then on the front of the box

Such a sweet little bunny

I love this book

Fabulously strange and surely one of a kind

This beautiful sculptural curiosity is a Japanese wood and papier mache fragment--half of a rib cage--from what I presume was a full body model of a human skeleton

J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions vintage disney " And then on theYou know I've got a weakness for early children's books, with this rare copy of Mother Goose's Melodies filled with charming engravings dating to the 1830s or so, but of course my even greater weakness if for how such books were personalized by the children who owned them and this one has the hand of a young J. H Brown all over it! Mostly, he added tiny hats to people and animals, but toward the end he seems to have learned how to write, and so Miss