Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush and very small dings here

and very small dings here and there

Signed Olin Dows

are just fantastic — a quintessential example of machine age design

which takes a strong pull to open

the other with the flower and stamen pointing downward

Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition antique neck brush and very small dings hereBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed