Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl The box measures 6 3/4"

The box measures 6 3/4" in diameter and 3 3/4" tall with lid on (2 1/4" without lid)

and then a rope border was glued around the perimeter as a final touch

) carved into the well at one end

It actually seems as if these could have been barber shop poles originally (there are a few dings showing bits of red paint

Stunning C. 1820s-40s British Mensuration Notebook with Poetic Fraktur Headers Throughout perfect blue bowl The box measures 6 3/4"It's been quite a long time since I had a notebook approaching the beauty of this one and I've never had one with SO MANY boldly and ornately penned fraktur type headers, populating more of its 81 pages than not. The headers sometimes filling the entire page are unusual, too, and to my sensibilities often quite poetic: "of the Regular Bodies," "Drains and Canals," "Of Bricklayers' and Masons Work, "Directions for Measuring Quarries and Coalheaps,"