Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing Schmid Kreglinger But best is the sculptural

But best is the sculptural frog with open mouth clinging to the side of its interior

interestingly

with swing hinges on the sides that allow the lid to rest in an open position

reading George Fincher (there are Lakota Finchers

and then these great crocheted booties and underwear revealed when one pulls up her linen dress

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing Schmid Kreglinger But best is the sculpturalI 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