One Beautiful Page of Early 19th Century Hand-marbled Paper (Ledger Cover) carved female nude and perhaps the perfect reward

and perhaps the perfect reward for the home bread and cookies maker

and a few strokes of a thicker white paint--plus remnants of scotch tape in two places along the top edge

9 1/4" x 7 1/4"

inside the box

There was pretty much no way I could leave this behind once I had seen it

One Beautiful Page of Early 19th Century Hand-marbled Paper (Ledger Cover) carved female nude and perhaps the perfect rewardFound digging through a bin of papers at a shop in Nashville, and too lovely and scarce not to grab. Despite the more recent handwritten note on the reverse, I believe this was not an end paper but rather the front or back cover of an early mid 19th century ledger, probably from a mensuration notebook filled with beautiful headers and calculations! Hand marbled, rich color, heavyweight paper, gorgeous. 8 3 4 x 10 1 2. Wear and a bit of loss around the