Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) northwest coast native american This first edition 1967 copy

This first edition 1967 copy

but I think it dates to not long after

Frame is vintage

and found it such a lovely and surprising thing

Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) northwest coast native american This first edition 1967 copyThis small but chock full watercolor drawing sketchbook is French, 1860s, purchased from a seller there; many time better in hand than my photos convey, and really quite marvelous, including for the diversity and often unusualness at least to contemporary eyes of its contents. Lots of portraits of people in the gardens of Paris, or on the street and one in the morgue (visiting the morgue was a popular pastime in mid 19th c. Paris.) A series of