Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing folk art stool 1 1/2" across at lip

1 1/2" across at lip

and then it's quite a handy thing for drawing a staff of five lines across a chalkboard (or paper

silly things

which I will always scoop up when I can as they're my favorite baskets of all

A lovely object I think

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing folk art stool 1 1/2" across at lipI 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