1829-30 Penmanship Practice Notebook, in German, Presumed American low country marsh but one of my very

but one of my very favorites ever

which I'd describe as Art Deco in style

Reynolds it looks to me--gathering and arranging  these shells in order to draw them

16 pages filled front and back plus covers

as if an instant passed between each shot

1829-30 Penmanship Practice Notebook, in German, Presumed American low country marsh but one of my veryI purchased this one especially for the layers of text and doodles on the inside covers and first and last pages, including a little Fraktur writing yum yum but love it front to back, including for the fact that I can't read German so the lines of penmanship practice repeated over and over become more or less just beautiful fields of line. Pretty cool too, that though in German I am confident is it American: it's author was a Johannes Knetz, but on