George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns yellow and white flower 7 5/8” w x 5

7 5/8” w x 5 1/8” d x 6 1/2” t

very pear-like bruising

but the repair has held and it is stable

showing like a vertical stripe

a garlic press used to make the terrifically shaggy mane

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns yellow and white flower 7 5/8” w x 5One of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and