Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA I'm a bit curious as

I'm a bit curious as to what the sign to the right of this snowman Snoopy says

studying how the colors merged and the shadows they cast (I recommend using these on a white table

It would be very easy to miss this little notebook of drawings—dated 1876—if it were buried in a stack

it makes me wonder whether it wasn't the original drawing for a Punch magazine cartoon

with the wood now showing darker on the front and lighter on the back of the chair

Samuel Gifford 1832 Large (90 pg) Geometry Notebook, Petherton School EWA I'm a bit curious asThis is one of second batch, just in, of several antique math and geometry notebooks from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them, and happily so. This is the mother of them, Samuel Gifford's from 1832, with some 90 pages completely filled on front and back. It features beautiful Spencerian + Fraktur headers throughout plus tons of geometric diagrams carefully drawn with compass and ruler, including a few enhanced with watercolor,