Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl I love her helmut-like head

I love her helmut-like head of hair

and a sliding lid that fits just right and slides easily

) carved into the well at one end

mid 20th c

All limbs well attached and moving smoothly

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl I love her helmut-like headIt'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,"