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Photos do not do this justice
with two ribbon bows on the spine
really only visible under very bright lights
plus several pages of alphabets in various fonts at the front
Lovely and Very Rare Wrifford's 1813 New System of Penmanship Instruction Booklet misshapen glass Photos do not do thisThis is a super rare one from what I can tell, published in Boston in 1813, making it a very early example of penmanship instruction, too. I was sold as soon as a saw the blue paper with cut and pasted letterpress printed title, but there are plenty of delights inside, including the fact that it was once possessed by a Persis Rice (what a great name) who wrote her name both in ink and pencil on the inside cover and dated it 1817. (I found a record of
