Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More sculptural pottery With handles on either side

With handles on either side

and everything about her feels rather elusive

finely scalloped edge

Hook on the back for hanging

after which he became

Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More sculptural pottery With handles on either sideOf everything I buy and sell, I think it is the doodles inside the pages of old books that feel most immediate and full of life to me like small, secret manifestations of private thoughts and wandering minds, which are just complete delights to discover, 200+ years later in this case! The book is a 1808 copy of The Scholar's Arithmetic, owned by a Charles B. Haynes, who left his marks all over its pages in the form of lots of mathematical calculations