Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) cute 9 3/4" x 7 5/8"

9 3/4" x 7 5/8"

in great condition with a nice warm patina

though it's also great piled up on itself to form a sort of a heap

11 1/8" x 9 1/8" x 1"

these just add to its earthy character

Fascinating 1860s French Sketchbook, Full (48 pages full) cute 9 3/4" x 7 5/8"This small but chock full watercolor drawing sketchbook is French, 1860s, purchased from a seller there; many time better in hand than my photos convey, and really quite marvelous, including for the diversity and often unusualness at least to contemporary eyes of its contents. Lots of portraits of people in the gardens of Paris, or on the street and one in the morgue (visiting the morgue was a popular pastime in mid 19th c. Paris.) A series of