Set of Three Late 19th Century Educational and Industrial Drawing Notebooks letter blocks This snuff box feels more

This snuff box feels more carnivalesque

Not fragile or flaking or coming off the stretcher

I really love that even as they illustrate systematic scaling up or down of a particular image

Card measures 8 1/2" x 5 3/8" folded as shown

I just didn't quite have the patience

Set of Three Late 19th Century Educational and Industrial Drawing Notebooks letter blocks This snuff box feels moreThe covers on these are pretty rough detached in the case of two of them but I've got a weakness for these old drawing instruction books, especially the more minimal ones as these are (focused on simple shapes, designs and patterns) and there are a couple curious drawings in here all their own (faces, skeletons.) I have not done a comprehensive job photographing, but photos here give a good sense a few favorites pages first, then a sampling of a few