Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University vintage bar tool but veering toward pure abstraction

but veering toward pure abstraction

This is the first one I've seen where the form inside the "cage" has a flattish bottom and a little carved handle on one side

I purchased this album online and thought I would take it apart and list the pieces individually (each one is frame-worthy)

and her long dress

Antique Marbled Paper Covers with Cloth Bindings, Harvard University vintage bar tool but veering toward pure abstractionSo pretty. I'm forever oggling hand marbled paper covers on old books, but often less interested in the pages inside! These were once owned by Harvard University (the Museum of Comparative Zoology specifically) and held short published essays inside, but one is now stripped of all of them and the other holds just a couple of pages making the perfect now to use as portfolios of sorts, or as covers for other things, etc. Hand marbled paper over hard