Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl wonderfully done embroidery

wonderfully done embroidery

and then a rope border was glued around the perimeter as a final touch

I personally like it a lot next to the fire bottle I just listed

I love her helmut-like head of hair

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl wonderfully done embroideryIt'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,"