Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition gift for sportsman it feels very Asian influenced

it feels very Asian influenced and a little Art Deco too

They are quite heavy

Sarah and Tamar

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Drawing Trees by Victor Perard 1945 First Edition gift for sportsman it feels very Asian influencedBefore Bob Ross, there was Victor Perard, teaching us how to draw faces, anatomy, horses, dogs, hands, flowers and trees! I really love the production of this 1945 first edition of Drawing Trees, with horizontal format, paper cover, cream newsprint like pages and handwritten text, making it feel super immediate, like a workbook to be taken out into the forest and indeed, there are blank pages inserted between sections. The pages themselves are packed