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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Agnes Richter’s jacket has only rarely been displayed to the public but its mysterious text has long fascinated art historians. The language appears to resemble Deutsche Schrift a nineteenth-century cursive script now unintelli- gible even to highly literate German speakers. However even experts in this and other arcane scripts find it difficult to make out the letters many of which are jagged or broken. In addition much of Agnes’s text is on the inside of the jacket and these parts having been worn against the skin are now softly blurred. Certain sections were sewn with a thin white thread that is now faint or unraveling. The significance of the many other colors-blue. red orange yellow-remains unknown. Nor is it at all clear where to locate the beginning middle or end of the narrative or to decide the direction in which it should be read: Neck to waist? In circular fashion around the slecors Inside first then outside? (LL)