19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks cigar smoking man hand-sculpted of terra cotta and

hand-sculpted of terra cotta and fabulous all the way around

unlike later ones with paper

and the surface of the back is pretty gorgeous too

paneled sides

emigrating in 1939

19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks cigar smoking man hand-sculpted of terra cotta andI 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)