Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing hand-painted vase Interior pages in excellent

Interior pages in excellent

shape and style of painting I’d guess it’s American and dates to the mid to late 19th century

but it certainly has me feeling motherly toward  it

with a presence that far outweighs its size

light scratching

Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing hand-painted vase Interior pages in excellentI have long been eyeing antique school notebooks, both relating to the study of math and writing calligraphy, and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England, which I am listing individually. This is one of two hard backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr. Heale's Academy in Sherborne. The first