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Up for sale is a beautiful, highly scarce piece of turn-of-the-century children's history: The Young Artist's Painting and Drawing Book by F. I. Wetherbee. This oversized antique volume features a gorgeous, vibrant chromolithograph front cover depicting a young artist working at an easel alongside a black-and-white cat.
Condition Details (Please Read & See Photos):
• Interior Pages: As is common with books of this era, the majority of the internal outline illustration pages have been colored/painted in by a child long ago. It serves as a charming, authentic historical record of early 20th-century childhood play.
• Cover & Spine: The front cover still retains bright, excellent color but shows expected wear for its age, including edge fraying, rubbing, bumping on the corners, and minor paper loss along the spine. There is a visible historic water stain on the bottom right corner of the front cover.
• Hinges/Binding: Aged but holding together.
Perfect For:
This volume is an incredible display piece for a rustic bookshelf, a unique addition to an antique children’s book collection, or perfect for an art history enthusiast who appreciates the vintage charm of century-old crayon and paintwork.
