Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s american penmanship with the wood showing through

with the wood showing through in beautiful ways

with very satisfying proportions

Clearly it has had quite a life

the other black and white--and though I am offering them for sale separately

Frances Billings' Very Sweet Seventh Grade Herbarium, c. 1910s-20s american penmanship with the wood showing throughA very sweet group of 24 "nature studies," housed in a cloth covered three ring binder though those binder rings pull at the holes in the somewhat brittle paper, making them not so easy to flip through so I'd keep them loose inside, or get some of these into frames. Sometimes one loves love herbarium for their exquisiteness, and sometimes for the humble earnestness this is more the latter, but really very lovely too. I love the paper they were done