Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine gold wreath There is one broken piece

There is one broken piece of leather

and might be inclined to place it in the bathroom holding bandaids

I can say that one can deeply feel the skill and care of the maker on this one

and a little drawer with recesses at bottom

and all the paint still well in tact

Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine gold wreath There is one broken pieceIt's the pages headed with "Single Fellow"s and Double Fellowship" that really sold me on this one, a math notebook dating to 1820 kept by an Isaac Ilsley of Portland, Maine. And really I might be tempted to extract the former from the notebook to frame it to admire the mast head like "Single Fellows" so beautifully lettered, and also as it delivers a definition of fellowship that resonates far beyond its context: "Fellowship is when two or more join