The First Book of VIRGIL's The Aeneid: Amazing Hand-drawn Re-telling with Latin Subtitles, F.B. Greene, Providence RI, 1868 (Copy) antique drawing charcoal on laid paper

charcoal on laid paper

but rarely come across one I really love--this one to my eye just right

Good condition with a little dryness to the wood (most visible as a horizontal line at the neck)

) as a print--but a watercolor indeed it is

great on a desk as as a paperweight or perched atop a pile of books or magazines

The First Book of VIRGIL's The Aeneid: Amazing Hand-drawn Re-telling with Latin Subtitles, F.B. Greene, Providence RI, 1868 (Copy) antique drawing charcoal on laid paperThis is an amazing thing, the likes of which I'll certainly never see again, and which I feel I lucked out in finding purchased from a favorite dealer in the Albany area, who buys directly from area estates, and who had just gotten it in and had it sitting on his desk, not yet processed. (I knew it was for me from the cover alone, and of course then begged for him to sell it; very kindly he obliged and I'm grateful.) This is a hand drawn re telling of