Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors or if you go ahead

or if you go ahead and purchase and if shipping is notably more expensive than what you pay at checkout

MA estate sale of artist Lois Gross Smiley (1925-2019)

especially for the contrast between the brown leather glove and the black leather mitt to which it is sewn--which brings the construction of the whole thing into relief

And then this great waif of a woman with crossed arms and pointed feet

shot at 2-3 times magnification

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors or if you go aheadThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice