British 1823 School Botany Notebook with Drawings Throughout jointed figure 2 medium soft pencils

2 medium soft pencils

A nice thing to keep on the coffee or board room table

with some darkening around the edges and some scattered light stains on the reverse

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Hand-drawn in blue ink (a few small smears on the leaves of the branch on which the birds sit make it clear this is drawn rather than printed) on cardstock weight board

British 1823 School Botany Notebook with Drawings Throughout jointed figure 2 medium soft pencilsI recently purchased a bundle of antique school notebooks from a bookseller in England, whose late husband had collected them, and I must say that it felt rather like Christmas receiving and going through them for the first time! This Botany notebook from 1823 is the humblest looking from the outside with just a simple brown paper cover, but inside a complete delight and I think my favorite of the lot, with lovely handwritten text interspersed