Odes to Tippoo the Dog, Wonderful c.1840s Mounted Hand-colored Storybook Engravings, Set of Five painting of cooking or a couple of big

or a couple of big lilies

which take on added resonance for being written over and over again (and also tell us a lot about the times

6 1/4" t x 3 3/8" w x 4 3/8" d

showing a little redder where it is carved

beautiful aged and worn condition

Odes to Tippoo the Dog, Wonderful c.1840s Mounted Hand-colored Storybook Engravings, Set of Five painting of cooking or a couple of bigHard not to be charmed by these! With a little research I identified them as five of six hand colored engravings on letterpress from an early 19th century (c. 1810 20s) children's book by I. Baker titled My Tippoo which someone long ago carefully trimmed, preserving images and text, and mounted to backing paper (that backing paper is old and feels pretty much of one with the cut pages.) So five portraits ready for framing of the marvelous, faultless,