This notebook took me all of two seconds to snatch up based on seeing the first page alone--it wasn't cheap, but ones like this don't come around very often, and there's nothing I love more. It appears to be the work of a young Caleb Cope, and features a series of pages filled with marvelous little watercolors drawings of birds and deer and leopards and houses and flowers and fruits and flourishes, all in the most glorious bright and bold color. In addition are a bunch of pages that were clearly schoolwork--with underlines in pencil throughout, highlighting misspelled words (of which there are many)--those underlines the work of a teacher I presume. The text relates to everything from the making of linen to the properties of gold and silver to the value of books--itself quite a wonderful read! A pure and total delight of a notebook and an early one--I believe c. 1820s-30s American I believe. I have found a records for a couple of Caleb Cope's--in Pennslvania and Ohio--that seem about right in terms of dates.
8 1/8" x 6 5/8". 12 pages almost all filled front and back. 10 faces of pages with watercolors. All watercolors pictured, though not all pages of writing. All in very good condition, color is fantastic, and paper is generally bright and in very good shape.
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