Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More baking dishes with carved and painted wooden

with carved and painted wooden head and body

Some pages at the front are long since missing

with this incredible smiling face

And I love the soldered tin box these all next inside too

and then best of all that arch of wire at the end of the handle for hanging

Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More baking dishes with carved and painted woodenOf everything I buy and sell, I think it is the doodles inside the pages of old books that feel most immediate and full of life to me like small, secret manifestations of private thoughts and wandering minds, which are just complete delights to discover, 200+ years later in this case! The book is a 1808 copy of The Scholar's Arithmetic, owned by a Charles B. Haynes, who left his marks all over its pages in the form of lots of mathematical calculations