Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! the greatest thrill in the world and to my eye just

and to my eye just perfectly aged and worn

filled with people and houses and animals and ships and all sorts of other little things

Two appendixes cover the uses of lettering in book bindings

but from a little distance it holds together well

which you just want to run your fingers through

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! the greatest thrill in the world and to my eye justThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice