J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions cherokee ) or just as a

) or just as a beautiful object for display

the map depicts the North Branch coal mine in Garrett County

Rhodes himself fulfills a lesson in perspective by filling the open pages of the pre-printed book with a summation of his life:

I can say that one can deeply feel the skill and care of the maker on this one

and would certainly make a nice toy for a child still

J.H Brown's c. 1830s Mother Goose's Melodies, Brown Paper Cover and Pencil Drawn Additions cherokee ) or just as aYou 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