1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color carved figure in coffin With a view to a

With a view to a bed chamber in the background

Dimensions:  27" l x 12 7/8" t

This is one of six pencil and colored pencil drawings of boxers I'm listing from the sketchpad of an unknown artist

I have figured out this was Fred C

I'm quite obsessed with it

1880s Reading Speller by William Campbell with Excellent Sections on Geometric Shapes and Color carved figure in coffin With a view to aA sweet and much handled old speller by William Campbell, published by Thomas Kelly, NY, 1887. Antique school books win me for many different reasons in this case it was particularly the single color plate showing primary, secondary and tertiary colors so gorgeous! (I would be very tempted to carefully cut that one out and frame it.) But also, near it, toward the back of the book, are several excellent pages of lines, angles and geometrical shapes,