1853 Byerly's New American Spelling Book with Watercolor Bird and Animal Engravings gessoed wood frame which it mirrors to a

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I would like to live in a world where handing out lovely rewards of merit for punctuality and good conduct and the like were de rigueur--and so I try to to pick up particularly nice examples when I come across them

But I quite like what looks like a musical staff on the opposite page

) I made the leap with this one though

1853 Byerly's New American Spelling Book with Watercolor Bird and Animal Engravings gessoed wood frame which it mirrors to aAnother week, another 19th century school speller, because I can simply not resist a good one, and especially not one with a watercolor bird on an end page! This one, Byerly's New American Spelling Book, was published by M. Polock, Philadelphia, in 1853. I purchased it from a wonderful dealer in PA, who shares my love of naive fraktur style watercolors, and indeed this tri color bird looks very Pennsylvania to me. With wonderful engravings too,