Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout red and cream Tube measures 8 3/4" l

Tube measures 8 3/4" l x 2" d

Is he on his way to a secret tryst

so they're great for learning/teaching some basic math and proportions

including a bit of paint loss along the top right edge where a second word is written in large pencil letters and a little roughness at lower right—but to me that doesn't matter a bit

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout red and cream Tube measures 8 3/4" lIt'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,"