Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA graphic quality of this vintage

graphic quality of this vintage woven textile

The glazing is great too--a purplish-gray that is subtle but cheerful

It would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawings—dated 1876—if it were buried in a stack

perhaps by the father

Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA graphic quality of this vintageThis 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,