Book as Object: Unusual Marbled Hymnal Score Covers, 1848 Copy of Uncle William and His Nephews glass bottom pin cusion Certainly one can never have

Certainly one can never have too many books

but that one stenciled with the letters of the alphabet

complete with curled up cat on the sofa

as if the watercolor itself were a document of the actual--messy--affair

Book as Object: Unusual Marbled Hymnal Score Covers, 1848 Copy of Uncle William and His Nephews glass bottom pin cusion Certainly one can never haveEvery time I venture to Pennsylvania I seem to come back with at least one book I've purchased for its covers alone, as is the case here. The book itself is a 1848 copy of "Uncle William and His Nephews" (a moral and religious tale that was a staple of 1840s Sunday school libraries) published by Lane & Tippett, New York, for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Church, 200 Mulberry Street, and printed by Jospeh Longking. There are a few nice