Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings early needlepoint Sight: 13 x 10 3/4

Sight: 13 x 10 3/4

Color and surface fantastic

Dating to the early 1930s I believe and produced by Napier

and I think this bus was by my favorite maker

Though made as a teaching toy for kids

Eva Ferguson's Late 19th Century Drawing Book with Very Lovely and Precise Biology Drawings early needlepoint Sight: 13 x 10 3/4This is a lovely late 19th century notebook of drawings, done for biology class I presume, by a young Eva Ferguson was very very meticulous in her work! Sixteen pages of drawings, most with thin tissue paper separating them, detailing everything from the microbial structure of an amoeba, to the ray of a starfish in cross section, to a ruminant stomach (mammalian), to the exterior of a crustacean, to various leaf structures. All very precisely rendered