Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors shot at 2-3 times magnification

shot at 2-3 times magnification

Yet still there is something to say for the hat / And for woman own sake I must preach it / Which is - should a family be caught in the rain / Then the family can shelter beneath it

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

or other fruits of the season

Goldsmith's Natural History Abridged, 1846, Much Annotated! naive watercolors shot at 2-3 times magnificationThis 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