Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl ) carved into the well

) carved into the well at one end

and perfect for serving salads and all sorts of other things

wonderfully done embroidery

6" x 3 15/16" x 1/2"

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl ) carved into the wellIt's been quite a long time since I had a notebook approaching the beauty of this one and I've never had one with SO MANY boldly and ornately penned fraktur type headers, populating more of its 81 pages than not. The headers sometimes filling the entire page are unusual, too, and to my sensibilities often quite poetic: "of the Regular Bodies," "Drains and Canals," "Of Bricklayers' and Masons Work, "Directions for Measuring Quarries and Coalheaps,"