Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA studying how the colors merged

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

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

graphic quality of this vintage woven textile

I especially love the huge painterly blue sky of this one--just right against the soft

it makes me wonder whether it wasn't the original drawing for a Punch magazine cartoon

Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA studying how the colors mergedThis 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,