Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing hand-painted vase with a presence that far

with a presence that far outweighs its size

but it certainly has me feeling motherly toward  it

They have been well loved

Perhaps he was once part of a larger situation

Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing hand-painted vase with a presence that farI 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