Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow not visible if hung face

not visible if hung face front

not just launching Lily Tomlin

On the left side of the paper two "Fold" notes mark the spots by which this drawing folds up to show this cast of characters pre-blackout (still a bit risqué

(With the font used for "Black Autumn" very close to the that used for the now iconic " I Am a Man" posters of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike

I believe for Ashland

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing orange cow not visible if hung faceI try to restrain myself, but I really have very limited capacity to resist early school books that teem with the presence of those who owned them long ago. And even more so when the manifestation of that presence is a full page of heavily inked fraktur writing as here quite a declaration of ownership by Piero Strassburger on the date of February 5, 1835 (and I love seeing the "anno domini" Latin.) The book itself appears to be quite a scarce one too