Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School green and black Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)

Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)

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The back of the frame bears the label of the well-known Kanda gallery in Tokyo

A friend and peer of Remington

Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School green and black Robert Tait McKenzie (1867-1938)This is one of second batch, just in, of several antique math and geometry notebooks from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them, and happily so. This is the mother of them, Samuel Gifford's from 1832, with some 90 pages completely filled on front and back. It features beautiful Spencerian + Fraktur headers throughout plus tons of geometric diagrams carefully drawn with compass and ruler, including a few enhanced with watercolor,