19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks cigar smoking man The male penguin overall in

The male penguin overall in fine shape and I think quite indestructible

Blue: 7 1/4" t

paneled sides

attached via wire

19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks cigar smoking man The male penguin overall inI purchased this one on Ebay, based on a few images that made me think it might be quite a thing, and indeed it is! With nearly 100 oversized pages packed with ink drawn illustrations and dense hand written text, it was the work of a "HPB" ( monogrammed at bottom right on every page), a student of art at academy I believe, and covers a wide scope of human anatomy and physiognomy, etc. Clearly he (I presume) was referencing (probably carefully copying)