1838 Portsmouth, NY Alphabetical Ledger with Hand-marbled Cover schmid There is one tiny flaw—what

There is one tiny flaw—what looks like a glaze chip just inside the lip

but is impossible to read now

which combined square and triangular shaped blocks

10 7/8” x 8 3/8” and in very good condition

and I think the combination of the individual portraits and the hand-painting and the gold trim and the whole spectrum of places and characters represented in alphabetic order makes them just truly marvelous

1838 Portsmouth, NY Alphabetical Ledger with Hand-marbled Cover schmid There is one tiny flaw—whatRare in my experience to come across an alphabetically tabbed ledger like this, and such a beautiful one, filled with the names of old Portsmouth, NH families someone from these parts would surely recognize. The letters of the alphabetical index are printed individually cut from somewhere and adhered one by one to the edges of the pages, with the pages to follow trimmed in order that each letter be visible from the front. To me all those letters lined