J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions stylized animals powerful arms with large hands

powerful arms with large hands

I am completely taken with this the sculpture

Believed to have shape-shifting qualities and called upon in ritual in order to clarify visions

4 1/2" tall x 4 3/8" long x 3 5/8" wide and in very good condition

and not a lost stitch anywhere that I can see

J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions stylized animals powerful arms with large handsYou 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