Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing folk art stool it's really a pretty great

it's really a pretty great object

printed in Switzerland

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

A lovely object I think

1960s-1970s or so

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing folk art stool it's really a pretty greatI 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