John Ranck’s Beautiful 1841 Math Notebook with Watercolor Headers, Pennsylvania horsehair plaster especially ones with marbled paper

especially ones with marbled paper covers

(The wood panel on the back of the mirror can be opened

a sort of clownish servant

which I take for a first sketch for the crayon drawing on reverse

12" l x 5 1/4" w x 6 1/4" t

John Ranck’s Beautiful 1841 Math Notebook with Watercolor Headers, Pennsylvania horsehair plaster especially ones with marbled paperIt has been a bit since I've bought an old math notebook ("copy book"), but this one was impossible to leave behind, with gorgeous hand marbled covers and watercolored headers on pretty much every single every page, plus a few extras about the John Ranck of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania who kept it while studying at "Pattons School House", 1841 1842. This one spans the basics addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, etc. with lots of