Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout red and cream They were designed by Patrick

They were designed by Patrick Rylands in 1966 and made by the British company Galt toys

also great for wrapping a gift

Gicher Ironworks Washington D

including a bit of paint loss along the top right edge where a second word is written in large pencil letters and a little roughness at lower right—but to me that doesn't matter a bit

The shape of the tower of greens and flowers keeps making me think of partridges in pear trees

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout red and cream They were designed by PatrickIt'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,"