Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More fraternal order emblem illustrator and children’s book writer

illustrator and children’s book writer William Steig

with the basketry seeming Native American

6" tall x 4

I'm not so much interested in old apple crate stencils for their own sake

14 1/2" diameter x 2 3/4" tall

Steal Not This Book My Little Friend, 1808 Scholar's Arithmetic with Ink Drawn Ladies and More fraternal order emblem illustrator and children’s book writerOf 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