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I have some old (1800's) student primers (textbooks) which I value for the doodles and illustrations past owners have done.

Perhaps the most fascinating is a drawing of an early steamship with smokestack and paddle wheels, but also masts for sails. This style of ship didn't exist for that long, and some student long ago must have seen them and been fascinated by them enough to make the drawing in the book.



This was a text too, I was a math student but it was not a class I had, this was a 19th century book.

The owner had embellished the inner covers and a few blank pages there.

In the most beautiful handwriting from a bold ink pen were a number of short passages, and one I will never forget:

Remember me when death shall close

my eyelids in the last repose

And evening breezes gently wave

the grass above your schoolmate's grave.


If you haven't seen it yet, a relevant thread on Twitter from the Museum of English Rural Life: https://twitter.com/TheMERL/status/1048541160271237120




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