Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder Read Strong's full bio here

Read Strong's full bio here

framed size 10

which appears to be a hand-painted lithograph

whether there is any profit in it or not (and this one I will of course be quite happy to keep for myself

and with what look to me to be mostly old hand-cut copper nails holding it all together

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout folk art thread winder Read Strong's full bio hereIt'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,"