Unusual Victorian lace quarto valentine, measuring about 10” tall. Handwritten with a layer of lace paper decorated with colored die cuts. It doesn’t open- it appears uncut, like the uncut pages of an old book. Refer to photos for condition: Overall good with some age tanning and foxing. Circa 1870. Message reads (accounting for spelling errors/anachronisms):

“May I once more now speak to thee
Immortalized beauty of Tripoli
Say but I may and I’ll confess
Secrets which my heart oppress [sic]
Tis of your bright eyes only, I now will speak
Unable to do justice to all your merits 
For in your eyes alone a new world I meet
Fresh hopes each glance of them inherits
The heart of your enamored.”