George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns photograph of coral Box measures 10 7/8" x

Box measures 10 7/8" x 2" x 1"t

and it struck me as looking like a figure waving

and general toning to the paper

And what a beautiful framing of it

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns photograph of coral Box measures 10 7/8" xOne 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