Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors And then this great waif

And then this great waif of a woman with crossed arms and pointed feet

I'm not totally sure the age or origin of this one

especially for the contrast between the brown leather glove and the black leather mitt to which it is sewn--which brings the construction of the whole thing into relief

shot at 2-3 times magnification

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors And then this great waifThis book has be through A LOT, with names of multiple users written on different pages, a few of which have come loose, and most of which remind us it is nearly 200 years old! But what a thing, its 427 pages not just filled with engravings of animals of all sorts, but also with child drawn pencil outlines of a handful of them and some hand written text, too, including the note early telling us to visit page 312, where we are told not once but twice