Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing Schmid Kreglinger perhaps on the wall right

perhaps on the wall right about the cat dish

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

but unreadable

folky 20th century examples

Piero Strassburger's Copy of The United States Arithmetician, 1831, with Fraktur Writing Schmid Kreglinger perhaps on the wall rightI 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