Not a great joke--really
which look fantastic anyway you put them
and those three pink chimneys
with a little creasing near the bottom and tear and folded corner at lower right
It looks like perhaps tiny screws or nails were initially used to join sides then abandoned in favor of glue
Robinson's Progressive Table Book, 1862, with Wonderful Hand-colored Navajo Not a great joke--reallyThis is a total charmer of an old school book teaching counting, adding, multiplication, etc, with wonderful graphics throughout: five pears here, seven bee hives there; two bunnies, nine chairs, one excellent hand held abacus! (That abacus alone sold me on this.) A very good many of them were carefully hand colored, as are a number of half page engravings, with the color much better in hand than in my photos. I've had one or two similar to this over