1857 The Boys Storybook by Frances Woodworth with Engraved Illustrations carved wood snuff box I really love his deadpan

I really love his deadpan expression

more carefully in some cases than it others

I love how the beam of light shining down on her not only seems heavenly but also as if it might come from a nearby lighthouse

there’s something disturbing and borderline stalkerish about such a niche fixation

1857 The Boys Storybook by Frances Woodworth with Engraved Illustrations carved wood snuff box I really love his deadpanI 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