Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment The hinges are well secure

The hinges are well secure and the interior clean

patient grinder he looks to be

yellowing teeth

and clearly took a great deal of time and care to make

One small section of the bristles are stained pink

Samuel Gifford 1829 British Math Notebook (2) with Fraktur Writing The Perfectly Good Cynics Calendar with Astronomical Attachment The hinges are well secureI have long been eyeing antique school notebooks, both relating to the study of math and writing calligraphy, and finally found a lovely set of five of them from a seller in England, which I am listing individually. This is one of two hard backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr. Heale's Academy in Sherborne. The first