Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition gift for sportsman in a powder room

in a powder room

The plates

and holds four black lacquered coasters inside

The underside of the lid and interior bottom of the box is lined with dark green fabric with a little padding underneath

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition gift for sportsman in a powder roomBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed