Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers stuffed cloth dog actually reminding me a bit

actually reminding me a bit of his portrait of Gertrude Stein--as if a this were a portrait of woman looking toward modernity

and would have been used as a target at a carnival or shooting arcade

with photos adhered to the card

I have only found one other of these out there anywhere

Roman History Vol. III, 1752, Huge French Secret Compartment Book Box with Gorgeous Marbled Endpapers stuffed cloth dog actually reminding me a bitAs early a French secret compartment book box as I've come across 1752! and quite a large one, with the most gorgeous marbled endpapers . And, a volume about Roman History, specifically the rise and fall of the Roman Republic, feels pretty apt for the moment. (This is the third volume in a series written by Charles Rollin and Jean Baptiste Louis Crvier spanning the period from the founding of Rome to the The Battle of Actium, 31 BC, leading to the end