1843 "Bread Book" cloisonne tray or boxed sets like this

or boxed sets like this containing so many

uncased 19th c

and comes off entirely

which in addition to its sheer beauty I love for the process it documents

Wonderful blue inked text at center

1843 "Bread Book" cloisonne tray or boxed sets like thisI bought this one just for the cover, with Bread Book handwritten in dark graphite letters against thick brown paper, which is darkened by stains across half of it, perhaps from oil spilled while baking! it appears definitely to have been the log order book of a baker, as the handwritten lists inside are for cakes and pies and crackers and loaves of bread by the dozen. Dated 1843 with a mix of filled and blank pages and, as an object, quite teeming