Vintage treasure

I found this beautiful little book in the local 'antique shoppe'.

It's a wonderfully tactile, leather bound, gilt-edged book.
The leather is so so soft and feels just lovely in your hand.

Mrs Browning's Birthday Book is a diary for birthdays which
includes snippets of poems by

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

February 21

There is one hill I nearer,

In my vision of the rest;

And a little wood seems clearer,

As I climbeth from the west,

Sideway from the tree-locked valley, to the valley upland crest

( The Lost Bower)