1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! incised text No tears and paper is

No tears and paper is not especially brittle

this one the head from quite an old working decoy

and makes me want to send more handwritten letters in order that I might receive some back to open with it

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1844 Elementary Spelling Book by Noah Webster with Lots of Good Words! incised text No tears and paper isClearly I've got words and language on my brain this week plus I just made a visit to my favorite antiquarian book seller in Maine so here's this lovely, early speller published by Sanborn & Carter, Portland, Maine in 1844. Lovely hand colored title page, then page after page of good (and pretty) words getting progressively longer and more sophisticated as one goes along. Another one to inspire images as new lines of thinking as one sees sequences