Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush Really a great little object

Really a great little object

with these inky blue fish with fine black outlines and details

I believe this would have been used for cooking as well as serving

which takes a strong pull to open

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush Really a great little objectBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed