1857 The Boys Storybook by Frances Woodworth with Engraved Illustrations Marc Hansen Made with black ink

Made with black ink

A great old carpenter's square

amplified by contrast to the rougher slab of stone below

Such a lovely little book

1857 The Boys Storybook by Frances Woodworth with Engraved Illustrations Marc Hansen Made with black inkI have such a hard time resisting a lovely old book with not much short of 200 years on it, and this one is certainly that, copyrighted 1851, with this copy printed in 1857. Inside are a series of five stories that are certainly as good for girls as boys (though perhaps best as a study of mid 19th c. morality and education!), from The Carpenters Boy to Crazy Ann (driven to madness from the loss of her love to a shipwreck) to William Tell, to The