Up for sale is this great antique 1826 manuscript poetry friendship book belonging to one Miss Guion. The book has a primitive repair reattaching the front cover to the binding at the spine with 2 strips of old cloth. The front free endpaper and the first page are only loosely attached to the binding by binding strings. The spine has some remnants of old dried glue. The journal is about 40% full with approximately 32 blank leaves and approximately 23 leaves with some kind of content. Most of the blank leaves are at the end of the book, though some are scattered in between the pages with content. When counting one side of the paper as a page, there are about 22 pages with manuscript writing, 3 of which also have small paintings at the top of the page. There is an illustrated manuscript title page with original artwork, 6 pages with small paintings and one additional page which has a very very small painting at the top of the page (the remainder of the page is blank). One page has a very small penciled outline. The book measures approximately 8 inches by 6 3/4 inches. Please look at photos to further note the condition and message me with questions you may have. The item “Antique 1826 MANUSCRIPT POETRY FOLK ART JOURNAL Handwritten PAINTINGS Sketchbook” is in sale since Sunday, May 26, 2019. This item is in the category “Antiques\Manuscripts”. The seller is “nevermore_antiques_and_books” and is located in Wallingford, Connecticut. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, South Korea, Indonesia, Taiwan, South africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi arabia, Ukraine, United arab emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa rica, Panama, Trinidad and tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint kitts and nevis, Saint lucia, Montserrat, Turks and caicos islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman islands, Liechtenstein, Sri lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macao, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Viet nam, Uruguay, Russian federation.

• Date of Publication: 1826
• Material: Paper
• Type: Handwritten Manuscript
• Subject: Poetry
• Original/Facsimile: Original
• Language: English