George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns yellow and white flower showing like a vertical stripe

showing like a vertical stripe

and perhaps especially the back

but the repair has held and it is stable

I might think mid-20th century but am not certain

and with a quick search I find the Clark mansion there

George Abbott's Model & Design Sketchbook with Lovely Hand-drawn Patterns yellow and white flower showing like a vertical stripeOne of three 1870s notebooks today from a George Abbott of Boston, MA, this one not full (if only!), but with a handful of very lovely drawings in it, several very carefully done pattern designs included and one stand along gouache on paper pattern painting loose inside its pages that I'd frame straight away. Photos show pretty much all of the pages, with short descriptions below them identifying a few as drawn from geometric "solids models" and