Cornelius Pierson 1842 British Calligraphy Practice Notebook with Hand-marbled Cover ceramic cooking pot The overview photo gives a

The overview photo gives a pretty good sense of color I think

The vase measures 4 inches tall with a diameter of 2

and which only adds to the piece

it's really quite a great looking thing to have sitting on the bar

starting with page 66 and fading out toward the end of the book

Cornelius Pierson 1842 British Calligraphy Practice Notebook with Hand-marbled Cover ceramic cooking pot The overview photo gives aSuch a beautiful thing, from the hand marbled paper cover, to the way Cornelius has written his name and numbers 1 4 on the inside flap, to every completely filled page of writing in it. I've looked at a fair number of these antique hand writing practice notebooks at this point and think the content in this one is especially excellent, with a super choice of words and phrases repeated over and over: "bankrupt in debt beyond the power of payment";