Wonderful Checkerboard Pattern Inlay Wooden Frame Oxford University Press signed on the underside of

signed on the underside of the lid "M

comes  from a volume of Zeitschrift für populäre Astronomi (Journal of Popular Astronomy)

This is one of two hard-backed math notebooks with marbleized paper covers and printed endpapers with "A Collection of Arithmetical Tables for the Use of Schools" of a Samuel Gifford studying at Mr

Structurally solid

and then initialed (proudly

Wonderful Checkerboard Pattern Inlay Wooden Frame Oxford University Press signed on the underside ofPhotos don't do justice to this terrific old frame, which is totally radiant, and pretty much vibrates with a sense of the love and care and that went into its making. I really really love pattern intensive handmade things like this, which embody both the great aspirations of their maker and the impossibility of exactitude when doing things by hand. Along these lines, I think this is the sort of frame that could make for some really wonderful formal