Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More sculptural pottery finely scalloped edge

finely scalloped edge

or sitting right at the center of one

looking rather like a pie

but I do spend a whole lot of time looking at carvings

This is the smallest of the three

Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More sculptural pottery finely scalloped edgeOf everything I buy and sell, I think it is the doodles inside the pages of old books that feel most immediate and full of life to me like small, secret manifestations of private thoughts and wandering minds, which are just complete delights to discover, 200+ years later in this case! The book is a 1808 copy of The Scholar's Arithmetic, owned by a Charles B. Haynes, who left his marks all over its pages in the form of lots of mathematical calculations