Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA with the wood now showing

with the wood now showing darker on the front and lighter on the back of the chair

studying how the colors merged and the shadows they cast (I recommend using these on a white table

perceiving them as adding to the aura of things that are already charged with history and tradition and made to be used

The watercolor landscape she is set amid (with stream running through the middle of it which she seems ready to magically float across) is shaped like two overlapping hearts

I'm a bit curious as to what the sign to the right of this snowman Snoopy says

Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA with the wood now showingThis 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,