Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings antique folk art inlaid box and the front opening measures

and the front opening measures 8 1/4" x 10 1/4"

" a hapless fellow fallen into the water while catching eels in "Bob in for Eeels

and then buried deeper in the earth what I imagine is a giant tuber

(How does one do this

I have not touched the wood on this piece

Lucy Jones' Mid 19th C. Sketchbooks (2) Filled with Graphite Drawings antique folk art inlaid box and the front opening measuresThis is quite a trove two 19th c. marble covered sketchbooks filled (every single page) with graphite drawings by a Lucy Jones, along with a hand written (undated) obituary tucked into one of them, which describes Lucy as a school teacher with a "cunning hand" in "housewifery, needlework, drawing and painting, flower culture and in many other occupations requiring taste and patience and skill of eye and touch." One of the sketchbooks shows Lucy