Harry's Reading Book, C. 1856, with Hand-colored Illustrations lavender and while I'm not sure

and while I'm not sure

Personally I've really come to embrace such flaws on pieces like this

revealing itself to be shaped like a book

A few months ago I found a wonderful Japanese cat hand-puppet (which immediately sold) that was clearly made by the same maker as this terrific clown

Harry's Reading Book, C. 1856, with Hand-colored Illustrations lavender and while I'm not sureJust a lovely little book, published by Willis P. Hazard, Philadelphia, and quite a rare one from what I can tell, finding only a couple of records of other copies held in library collections. There was a second edition published in 1862, but I believe this is the first edition. Curiously (though written in the first person, so he might be the narrator) Harry is only mentioned once as a blind old man, who is patient and does not complain, but gives