Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing mahogonay green and blue

green and blue

This fantastic

she takes refuge in a print shop

with a few stains here and there as there should be

I've not seen an example incorporating needlepoint before though

Memoir of Charles Henry Porter by E. Goodrich Smith, 1849, with Wooly Mammoth Endpaper Drawing mahogonay green and blueI am forever opening old books in hopes of finding drawings on the end papers so a happy surprise to find this one, which I take for a drawing of a wooly mammoth. Perhaps it was a bit later that the graphite drawing was enhanced with ink, I'm not sure but I really love the inked arrow at lower right, pointing out the snake wrapped around the tree! Perhaps that snake is signaling things to come, but in the meantime our mammoth seems a very serene