James Gifford 1804 Geometry Notebook, Hand-marbled Cover, Partially Filled mercantile lists and the wonderful painted decoration

and the wonderful painted decoration everywhere

though it's also great piled up on itself to form a sort of a heap

12" l  x 8 3/8" d x 4 5/8" t

should one want to do that

the Slade School

James Gifford 1804 Geometry Notebook, Hand-marbled Cover, Partially Filled mercantile lists and the wonderful painted decorationThis is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them, and happily so. This one belonged James Gifford and dates to 1804; I'd guess he was the father of Samuel Gifford, who a few others belonged to. This one, with hand marbled paper soft cover, is only partially filled, leaving plenty of room for more geometry should one be so inclined! The pages that are filled are very