Early Myology or The Muscles Human Anatomy Bookplate Engraving on Laid vintage nesting boxes but also for the fact

but also for the fact that they somehow escaped the trash heap for me to rather miraculously to discover them buried in a pile at a flea market some 80 years later

Crazing to the glaze all over as well dark spots here and there

but I like the Flavour KEPT IN

masks like this were traditionally thought to contain the spirit of ancestors

stands steady on its own

Early Myology or The Muscles Human Anatomy Bookplate Engraving on Laid vintage nesting boxes but also for the factI haven't found an exact match for this one out there so am not sure what volume it came from, but clearly it is quite an old engraving, late 18th early 19th c. I believe, on laid paper. The text details 76 exterior and 53 interior muscles of the body corresponding to numbers on the beautifully rendered bodies, with a enlarged detail of a "simple regular muscle" at top right. I especially love the face on our man at right. It appears this was cut down