Caleb Cope's Most Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Notebook with Many Watercolors and Schoolwork japanese embroidery Great paint job

Great paint job

Dickie (a relative of the box owner I'd guess) who had headed a New York company during the Civil War

especially early ones

looking as if carried around

I feel happier looking at this

Caleb Cope's Most Wonderful Earlyish 19th Century Notebook with Many Watercolors and Schoolwork japanese embroidery Great paint jobThis notebook took me all of two seconds to snatch up based on seeing the first page alone it wasn't cheap, but ones like this don't come around very often, and there's nothing I love more. It appears to be the work of a young Caleb Cope, and features a series of pages filled with marvelous little watercolors drawings of birds and deer and leopards and houses and flowers and fruits and flourishes, all in the most glorious bright and bold color. In