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paneled sides
a wonderful homespun art nouveau moment
Each one of these is its own terrific drawing
The male penguin overall in fine shape and I think quite indestructible
unlike later ones with paper
19th C. Art School Anatomy Lessons, 90+ Packed Pages Ink Drawings and Handwriten Textbooks cigar smoking man paneled sidesI 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)
