Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine hand-painted blocks the seam along one hip

the seam along one hip has separated a bit in one place

but definitely feels like it's lived an interesting life

and that of her dog too

and equally excellent all the way around

Isaac Ilsley's 1820 Math Notebook with Lovely Headers, Portland Maine hand-painted blocks the seam along one hipIt's the pages headed with "Single Fellow"s and Double Fellowship" that really sold me on this one, a math notebook dating to 1820 kept by an Isaac Ilsley of Portland, Maine. And really I might be tempted to extract the former from the notebook to frame it to admire the mast head like "Single Fellows" so beautifully lettered, and also as it delivers a definition of fellowship that resonates far beyond its context: "Fellowship is when two or more join