Alexander Peach, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog trainer leather spine

leather spine

9 1/16" l x 1" wide

and so feels to me more like a consolation trophy than the winning one

just what it needs to be

like drawings to hang in space

Alexander Peach, c. 1868 Hand-stenciled Watercolor Illustration from Horticultural Salesman Sample Catalog trainer leather spineThis Alexander peach, and a Wealthy apple listed separately today I don't find these often, but recently came across a handful, and I just think they're gorgeous. This would have been one page in a salesman sample type horticultural specimen catalogue (unbound, but held together in a folio I believe). This is not a lithograph rather, the peach and leaves here were rendered in a manner akin to a theorem watercolor, using multiple, hand cut stencils and