Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold This just struck me as

This just struck me as rather poetic and wonderfully lyrical--two looping knots of worm at top and bottom

The illustrative surface design

of desire among other things

I might mount it on the wall and hang a few things from its arms

which shows through a cutout in the top of the box

Chas. Frey 1898 Lancaster PA Drawing Book with Excellent Graphics antique steel mold This just struck me asThis drawing instruction book was published in 1889 in Lancaster, PA by Charles H. Frey, a Lancaster PA boot and shoe merchant, and includes instructions for a mail in drawing contest at back. I love old drawing instruction books which are also useful in providing something of a source key to naive drawings that show up in other places and really love the graphicness of line drawings against black ground here. Plus a sweet inscription from Elizabeth