Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder There is what looks like

There is what looks like a "V" incised on the face of the lid

" "Generosity is doing more than we are obliged to do

I'd just prop this one is in the window

but one is long lost--reflected in the price of this piece

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder There is what looks likeIt'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,"