Notebook of Clever Pencil Drawn Characters, 1876 unusual broom other playing with simple geometries

other playing with simple geometries like this one

maybe 1930s or 40s

but overall are in good shape

points to the materiality of the woodblock surface itself

Notebook of Clever Pencil Drawn Characters, 1876 unusual broom other playing with simple geometriesIt would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawingsdated 1876if it were buried in a stack, but happily the person I bought it from found it, as it is really marvelous! There are a total of 11 drawings, each cleverly titled and each featuring a very singular character or characters, from two big bellied suited fellows on the first page (cover is missing) punningly titled (I believe) close corporations to a pair of fabulous articulated wooden