There's a whole bunch here, all the notes of one art student, c. 1860-70s British I believe, which together provide instruction for everything from making and coloring wax flowers to drawing faces to painting frescoes to making molds to perspective drawing, on and on. All written in beautiful hand, and all with the level of step by step detail (how to properly heat tallow, mix Prussian blue, thicken honey for wax molds, measure the length of the nose, etc, so as to provide very specific recipes and tactical instruction. With a few designs and diagrams and drawings among them. All housed in a lovely hand marbled paper covered hard-board folio, which is stamped "I.Green, 33 Soho Square" (London) on the inside cover. This is really quite a trove of information about Victorian era art and craft--which I find quite transportive just reading through, and the likes of which as a whole I've really not come across before.
Folio itself, covered in hand-marbled paper: 11 3/4" x 9 1/2" closed. The first few photos are assorted, and then I've gone through and captured a few photos of each section of contents--not at all comprehensive, but giving a sense. All pictured included. My photos of notes on paper are never good, as is true again here--I went back and reshot some under flourescent lights; there is some redundancy but together they give a sense. The ink is strong and notes clearly readable throughout.
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