George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns yellow and white flower a garlic press used to

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very pear-like bruising

attached with three old nails in a row

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George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns yellow and white flower a garlic press used toOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and