Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples plates with Guignol chararcters 13 1/4" t x 2

13 1/4" t x 2 1/4" w x 7/8" deep

1918--I'd guess a class assignment from an advertising design class

There are three old screw holes down the center

I've developed quite a weakness for old handmade needle books

and I'll snatch up more should I find them

Agnes Gilbert's Beautifully Preserved Early 20th C. Herbarium with Sixteen Samples plates with Guignol chararcters 13 1/4" t x 2This herbarium is undated, but I know the portfolio itself, designed by C. S. Jackson and published by Rumford Supply Co., South Weymouth MA, has a 1906 copyright, so would think this dates to the first quarter of the 20th c. or so. On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course, which are all still enclosed, each on the right side of a paper folio, with details about the specimen