1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies good shepherd retablo 9 1/8" x 7 1/2"

9 1/8" x 7 1/2"

In wooden crate with jointed corners and smart looking American Crayon Company paper label: Freart for Free Expression Work--a phrase which itself feels like a timely mandate

I couldn't resist them

this 1938 first edition of “Developing Sales Technique and Personality” by Dave Colcord does a pretty good job of selling itself

head and two paws raised as if begging you for a treat

1840s Boxed German Album Amicorum with Many Lovelies good shepherd retablo 9 1/8" x 7 1/2"I only recently learned about album amicorum (Latin for "book of friends") or liber amicorum, a European manuscript tradition, beginning in the 16ht century, where individualsoften students, scholars, or aristocratscollected signatures, poems, illustrations, and in this case embroideries, from friends, colleagues, and notable figures. A sort of precursor to the Victorian autograph album, but these were comprised of loose pieces, collected over time,