Cornelius Pierson 1842 British Calligraphy Practice Notebook with Hand-marbled Cover ceramic cooking pot They come in their original

They come in their original box

starting with page 66 and fading out toward the end of the book

and which to my eye pretty much disappear when hung on the wall

and red lines rising from nostrils together convey constant motion and circulation in all directions

with a little roughness to the wood and a few tiny cracks in the bowl and on the upper neck of the dark--no real matter

Cornelius Pierson 1842 British Calligraphy Practice Notebook with Hand-marbled Cover ceramic cooking pot They come in their originalSuch a beautiful thing, from the hand marbled paper cover, to the way Cornelius has written his name and numbers 1 4 on the inside flap, to every completely filled page of writing in it. I've looked at a fair number of these antique hand writing practice notebooks at this point and think the content in this one is especially excellent, with a super choice of words and phrases repeated over and over: "bankrupt in debt beyond the power of payment";